The effect of continuing education participation on outcomes of male and female agricultural workers in the USA

Anita Pena

Education Economics, 2015, vol. 23, issue 6, 751-776

Abstract: Job training and employment assistance programs aim to assist migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents locate steady employment and develop job skills. This study investigates effects of educational programs on wages, annual time allocations, and poverty of male and female farmworkers and their families using regression analysis in comparison to propensity score matching. Continuing education participation is found to be associated with higher wages, though variation across program types is large and magnitudes across genders matter. Program participation is positively related to work weeks, and negatively related to weeks abroad and to poverty incidence.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2014.948387

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