Permanent Housing for Seasonal Workers? A Generalized Peak Load Investment Model for Farm Worker Housing

Eivis Qenani-Petrela, Ron Mittelhammer () and Philip Wandschneider ()

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2008, vol. 40, issue 01, 19

Abstract: Many seasonal workers are housed in transitory accommodations, including tents and vehicles. In this study, we analyze the supply side of this problem by assuming that a public agent must house the workers through direct public investment. A peak load model is adapted to develop investment rules for the least-cost provision of seasonal worker housing, adding an interacting multi-season component to existing models. Based on this model and the data from three prototype projects, the majority of the least-cost investment would be in permanent, but seasonally occupied, housing.

Keywords: Farm Management; Labor and Human Capital; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.45515

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