Induced Innovations and Foreign Workers in U.S. Agriculture

Orachos Napasintuwong and Robert D. Emerson

No 15641, Working Papers from University of Florida, International Agricultural Trade and Policy Center

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 simulaton 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; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 2005
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Working Paper: INDUCED INNOVATIONS AND FOREIGN WORKERS IN U.S. AGRICULTURE (2002)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.15641

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