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Geographic Flows of Hired Agricultural Labor: 1957–1960
Author(s) -
Gallaway Lowell E.
Publication year - 1968
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 - 10.2307/1237536
Subject(s) - census , agriculture , social security , labor mobility , administration (probate law) , labour economics , economics , business , geography , political science , sociology , law , market economy , population , demography , archaeology
Data obtained from Social Security Administration records are used to examine whether hired agricultural labor moving from one census region to another within the United States is responsive to economic phenomena. The unique feature of the analysis is its access to data describing gross flows of hired agricultural labor among these regions rather than having to rely on observations of net changes in the quantity of such labor. The general conclusion is that hired agricultural workers are responsive to economic phenomena in the directions suggested by formal economic theory but that interregional movement of such workers is greatly hampered by the presence of artificial barriers to mobility.