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Legal Status and Earnings of Agricultural Workers
Author(s) -
Isé Sabrina,
Perloff Jeffrey M.
Publication year - 1995
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 - 10.2307/1243547
Subject(s) - earnings , wage , differential (mechanical device) , legal status , agriculture , demographic economics , business , labour economics , economics , geography , accounting , political science , law , archaeology , engineering , aerospace engineering
Agricultural workers who work in the United States earn 15% more on average than do undocumented workers. These earnings differentials vary substantially with demographic characteristics. For example, much of the weekly earnings loss from not having legal status can be offset by language ability. Most of the earnings differential is due to wage differentials rather than hours differentials.