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Est‐ce que les réductions de tarifs douaniers affectent les salaires des travailleurs dans les industries protégées? Impact de l'Accord de libre échange Canada‐États‐Unis.
Author(s) -
Townsend James
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.00400.x
Subject(s) - tariff , wage , free trade agreement , labour economics , economics , affect (linguistics) , free trade , manufacturing , human capital , business , international economics , economic growth , linguistics , philosophy , marketing
. In this paper, I use Canadian micro‐data on individual workers to investigate the effect on wages of the tariff reductions mandated by the Canada‐U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA). The literature on industry wage premia has revealed that the industry of employment is an important determinant of a worker's wage. My findings indicate that relative wages fell in those industries that faced the deepest tariff cuts. This effect was experienced regardless of whether or not workers belonged to a union, suggesting that CUSFTA reduced the returns to industry‐specific human capital for those workers in the mostly heavily affected industries.