Determinants of Occupational Changes of U.S. Migrant Farm Workers under Recessionary Times

Tianyuan Luo and Cesar Escalante ()

No 162415, 2014 Annual Meeting, February 1-4, 2014, Dallas, Texas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: This paper studies the factors influence the labor decisions of agricultural labor in the U.S. and finds the distinction among the three types of agricultural workers. Undocumented farmers are unresponsive to wage changes while other farmers are not; enhanced education decreases the probability of exiting farm for foreign-born farmers.

Keywords: Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.162415

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