Rising Wages Point to a Tighter Farm Labor Market in the United States

Steven Zahniser, J. Edward Taylor, Tom Hertz () and Diane Charlton

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2019, vol. February 2019, issue 01

Abstract: A recent ERS study found that labor supply in the farm sector may be tightening, evidenced by rising farm wages relative to the nonfarm wages and other factors.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Financial Economics; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302680

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