The Hired Farm Working Force of 1981

Susan L. Pollack and Jackson, William R.,

No 305526, Agricultural Economic Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: In 1981, approximately 2.5 million people 14 years of age and over did farmwork for cash wages and salary. The racial/ethnic composition of the work force was 73 percent white, 13 percent Hispanic, and 14 percent black and other. Fifty-five percent of the farmworkers were under 25 years old and 77 percent were male. At the time of the survey, more farmworkers resided in the South (40 percent) and North Central (28 percent) regions than in the Northeast and West. About four of five workers had nonfarm residences. The average annual earnings in 1981 were $4,299, of which $2,659 came from an average of 98 days of farmwork. Migrant workers accounted for only about 5 percent of all hired farmworkers.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 67
Date: 1983-11
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/305526/files/aer507.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uerser:305526

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.305526

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Agricultural Economic Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().