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

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Apr 11 23:15:51 PDT 2001



> > 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.
> >

But that has not happened yet (although Sherman Robinson is still scared that it might)...



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