Heading South: U.S.-Mexico Trade and Job Displacement after NAFTA

Peer-Reviewed Study · Robert E. Scott · May 3, 2011

Economic Policy Institute, 2011: the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico had displaced 682,900 U.S. jobs by 2010, about 116,400 of them likely lost for good. A think-tank estimate.

As of 2010, U.S. trade deficits with Mexico totaling $97.2 billion had displaced 682,900 U.S. jobs. Of those jobs, 116,400 are likely economy-wide job losses because they were displaced between 2007 and 2010, when the U.S. labor market was severely depressed.

Economic Policy Institute, 2011: the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico had displaced 682,900 U.S. jobs by 2010, about 116,400 of them likely lost for good. A think-tank estimate.

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