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  2. NAFTA's effect on United States employment - Wikipedia

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    North American Free Trade Agreement's impact on United States employment has been the object of ongoing debate since the 1994 inception of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico. NAFTA's proponents believe that more jobs were ultimately created in the USA.

  3. Fair trade debate - Wikipedia

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    An investigation into the limits of Fair Trade as a development tool and the risk of clean-washing, HEI Working Papers, vol. 6, Geneva: Economics Section, Graduate Institute of International Studies, October. Mohan, S. (2010), Fair Trade Without the Froth – a dispassionate economic analysis of 'Fair Trade', London: Institute of Economic Affairs.

  4. Labor history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Leonard Levy went so far as to refer to Hunt as the "Magna Carta of American trade-unionism", [16] illustrating its perceived standing as the major point of divergence in the American and English legal treatment of unions which, "removed the stigma of criminality from labor organizations". [16] However, case law in America prior to Hunt was mixed.

  5. New international division of labour - Wikipedia

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    In economics, the new international division of labour (NIDL) is an outcome of globalization.The term was coined by theorists seeking to explain the spatial shift of manufacturing industries from advanced capitalist countries to developing countries—an ongoing geographic reorganisation of production, which finds its origins in ideas about a global division of labor. [1]

  6. Strategic trade theory - Wikipedia

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    Strategic trade theory suggests that in some industries global economic interaction gives rise to zero-sum competition over the excess returns available in oligopolistic industries. [ 6 ] In the absence of intervention by any government, the firm that is the first to enter a particular industry will win and by doing so will deter entry by ...

  7. Labour economics - Wikipedia

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    The neoclassical model analyzes the trade-off between leisure hours and working hours. Railroad work. Households are suppliers of labour. In microeconomic theory, people are assumed to be rational and seeking to maximize their utility function. In the labour market model, their utility function expresses trade-offs in preference between leisure ...

  8. Trade and development - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) notes that this means that “even small changes in agricultural employment opportunities, or prices, can have major socio-economic effects in developing countries”. Thus whatever the development strategy a particular country adopts, the role of agriculture will often be crucial.

  9. Foreign trade of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The authority of Congress to regulate international trade is set out in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 1): . The Congress shall have power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and to promote the general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform ...