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Turnover in U.S. Agricultural Labor Markets
Author(s) -
Tran Lien H.,
Perloff Jeffrey M.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8276.00308
Subject(s) - amnesty , agriculture , immigration reform , immigration , labour economics , farm workers , control (management) , business , economics , immigration policy , political science , geography , law , politics , archaeology , management
Abstract Agricultural workers move in and out of agriculture frequently. Migration between types of jobs takes relatively little time. Legal female workers tend to stay out of the U.S. labor market longer once they stop being employed and their access to jobs outside of agriculture is more limited than that of their male counterparts. Predictions made when the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act was passed that granting people amnesty would induce most of them to leave agriculture were incorrect.