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Trade with Mexico and California Jobs
Publication Date: January 2006
Publisher(s): Public Policy Institute of California
Author(s): Howard J. Shatz
Funder(s): Public Policy Institute of California
Funder(s): Public Policy Institute of California
Series: California Economic Policy v.2 no.1
Topic: Economics (Economic policy, planning, and development)
Type: Report
Coverage: California
Abstract:
The increasing globalization of the U.S. economy has sparked a persistent debate over the effects of trade on labor markets, and this debate has been most heated when it involves trade between the United States and low-wage countries. This edition of California Economic Policy analyzes the effect of trade with Mexico on job loss in California. The author finds that in some sectors of the economy --- particularly manufacturing --- trade with Mexico has had a small but visible effect, but not the large-scale level of job destruction some had feared.