Can Wages Rise Quickly Enough to Keep Workers in the Fields?

Diane Charlton, J. Edward Taylor, Stavros Vougioukas and Zachariah Rutledge

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2019, vol. 34, issue 2

Abstract: The farm labor supply from rural Mexico is decreasing, and household survey data from rural Mexico suggest that real U.S. farm wages would have to rise by more than 10% over 10 years to keep the U.S. farm labor supply constant. Labor-saving practices and mechanization will be required to keep U.S. agricultural production globally competitive.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Labor and Human Capital; Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.288634

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