Whither the H-2A Visa Program: Expansion and Concentration

Marcelo Castillo, Philip Martin and Zachariah Rutledge

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2024, vol. 39, issue 01

Abstract: The H-2A visa program allows farm employers in the United States to hire guest workers to fill seasonal farm jobs if employers can demonstrate that U.S. workers are not available and the presence of H-2A workers will not adversely affect similar U.S. workers. Despite complaints that the H-2A program is costly and cumbersome, the number of seasonal jobs certified to be filled with H-2A workers has quadrupled over the past decade. H-2A workers now account for about 15% of average employment on U.S. crop farms and a higher share in southeastern states.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.344747

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