Canada liberalized trade with the US in the late 1980s, exposing Canadian workers to a massive new source of competition. Peter Morrow (University of Toronto) explores why Canadians successfully adjusted to new opportunities but similar workers elsewhere have not (24:07).

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• Kovak, Brian K. and Peter M. Morrow. 2023. The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. NBER Working Paper #27393, October (revised).