Rising Food and Energy Prices: Projections for Labor Markets 2008-18 and Beyond

Wallace Huffman

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to examine how the likely growth in the ethanol industry over the next decade will impact U.S. labor markets, especially migrant crop labor, which is largely immigrant labor. To build the background for making projections for 2008-2010 and beyond, the paper reviews and critiques: (i) the size and composition of the U.S. farm labor market, (ii) the demographics and wage of hired farm workers, (iii) the supply of farm workers, and (iv) the factors affecting the demand for farm labor, including new technologies. The final section provides some projections for agricultural labor markets, taking account not only of likely trends in energy prices but also new technologies that will affect labor demand in the future.

Keywords: food prices; energy prices; migrant labor; immigrant labor; agricultural labor; labor intensive agriculture; agricultural technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-10-28
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Working Paper: Rising Food and Energy Prices: Projections for Labor Markets 2008-18 and Beyond (2008)
Working Paper: Rising food and energy prices: projections for labor markets 2008-18 and beyond (2008)
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