September 2003
Researching NAFTA Job Losses
In Your Community
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Documenting NAFTA-related job losses can be tricky without
using community surveys. If you need numbers quickly
you can use NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance
figures from the Department of Labor. These tables list
companies that laid-off workers because of NAFTA &
were rewarded assistance. These numbers do not capture
the entire number of jobs lost however, as it only shows
those who have petitioned for the assistance. You can
get a better picture by also looking at the mass layoffs
that occurred in your communities during the time period.
While you cannot receive information on whether or not
the layoffs were NAFTA-related you can get a sense as
to which industries were hit hardest and when. |
North
American Development Bank Los Angeles Office & the US
Community & Investment Program
http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/NADBANK/NDB_COLD_FUSION_ROOT/index.cfm
Data on NAFTA-TAA awards, unemployment figures over-time
& county business patterns by county and SIC code
Department
of Labor, NAFTA-Transitional Adjustment Assistance Cases
http://www.doleta.gov/tradeact/taa/nafta_search_form.cfm
Scroll down to search by state, SIC code or company name.
The site is updated weekly and lists awards since 1997.
Bureau
of Labor Statistics- Mass Layoff Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/mls/home.htm
Select current monthly data or look into the archives for
past years to compare over time. You can also request data
for a specific area by emailing the department. Be sure
to be specific about the city, county and years you would
like the information. They will not release company-specific
information. Email request to mlsinfo@bls.gov
Jobs
With Justice & Economic Policy Institute
http://www.jwj.org/global/FTAA01/NAFTAreports.htm
State Reports On NAFTA Job Loss After Seven Years, 1994-2001
News Searches
If you have access to a Lexis Nexis database
(www.nexis.com)
you can enter a power search using the search string, "job
loss and NAFTA and _(your town)__". This will most
likely bring up a number of articles you can sift through
and tally up numbers - usually big lay-offs receive some
press that gives the amount of workers who lost their job.
Mexico-Specific Job Loss
Mexican workers have not benefited from NAFTA.
Rather poverty has risen by over 50% during the first four
years of NAFTA and wages in the manufacturing sector have
declined. (Source: NAFTA At Seven, EPI Briefing Paper, 4/2001;
Seven Years Under NAFTA, Institute for Policy Studies, August
2001)
Instituto
Nacional De Estadistica Geografia y Informatica (INEGI)
http://www.inegi.gob.mx/difusion/ingles/portadai.html
Mexican federal agency responsible for integrating statistical
and geographic information. Contains information on employment,
wages, demographics and more.
A project of the DataCenter's
Economic Justice
Program.
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