I'm wondering if, based on the results reported below, we should conclude NAFTA has been 'good' for Canada and Mexico, just like our bosses said it would be. NAFTA's CASUALTIES Employment effects on men, women, and minorities by Jesse Rothstein and Robert Scott ....In an effort to avoid these methodological pitfalls and to provide a more comprehensive, accurate picture of NAFTA’s effects, the model used in this report takes into account both imports and exports and uses industry-level trade, price, and demographic data. ....In total, NAFTA resulted in a net loss of 394,835 jobs in its first three years. ....On the whole, imports from Mexico and Canada destroyed a gross total of 797,315 job opportunities. Net losses, after including the gains from exports, were 394,835 jobs. ....The NAFTA job losses are skewed toward high-wage jobs.
