Did Nafta Create Jobs?

Job creation
U.S. employment increased over the period of 1993–2007 from 110.8 million people to 137.6 million people. Specifically within NAFTA's first five years of existence, 709,988 jobs (140,000 annually), were created domestically.

How does NAFTA affect employment?

NAFTA affected U.S. workers in four principal ways. First, it caused the loss of some 700,000 jobs as production moved to Mexico. ... Second, NAFTA strengthened the ability of U.S. employers to force workers to accept lower wages and benefits.

Who benefited from NAFTA?

We consider NAFTA as a prolonged impulse function in international trade activities among the three trading partners by employing an intervention-function model. Findings reveal that NAFTA increases bilateral trade between US-Canada and US-Mexico, and in terms of income, NAFTA benefits Canada the most “certainly”.

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