Fwd: FW: NAFTA has harmed workers in all three countries

[Michael Perelman]

Why can't you say it?  NAFTA allows US agricultural goods, which require very
little labor, to displace Mexican agriculture, which is very labor intensive.
So, let's say that 1 farm worker displaces 20 in Mexico and that 10 of these
displaced farm workers are employed, displacing 3 U.S. workers.

Brad DeLong wrote:


>  You can't say that NAFTA was bad
> for the U.S. because demand for labor would have boomed even more
> without it and also say that NAFTA was bad for Mexico because demand
> for labor didn't keep up with the rapidly-growing labor force.
>

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu