INDUCED INNOVATIONS AND FOREIGN WORKERS IN U.S. AGRICULTURE

Orachos Napasintuwong and Robert D. Emerson

No 19738, 2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: A cost function approach of induced innovation is used to measure the biases in U.S. agricultural technology between 1948-1994. The results show significant labor-saving, capital-using technical change. Focusing on the impact of migration policy on labor-saving technology, a simulation of different rates of labor-saving technical change is conducted. The simulation shows decreases in elasticity of labor demand and demand quantity, and an increase in wage rate as technology becomes more labor-saving.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21
Date: 2002
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Working Paper: Induced Innovations and Foreign Workers in U.S. Agriculture (2005)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.19738

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