The U.S. Farm Labor Market Post-IRCA: An Assessment of Employment Patterns, Farm Worker Earnings and Legal Status [PDF]
Immigration reform may significantly impact the specialty crops sector since more than half of the workforce is foreign-born and undocumented. Based on data from the National Agricultural Workers Survey, the trends pertaining to workers' legal status ...
Emerson, Robert D. +3 more
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Ending Hunger: The Role of Agriculture [PDF]
, 2008 A spike in global food prices has increased hunger, and a prolonged period of higher prices threatens to stall or reverse progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Increasing agricultural productivity in poor countries is critical to
Charles Uphaus
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A Profile of the Gauteng Province: Demographics, Poverty, Income, Inequality and Unemployment from 2000 till 2007 [PDF]
The Gauteng agricultural sector is a dynamic and livelihood sustainable sector. Approximately 0.46% of the Gauteng value added gross domestic product comes through agriculture and 0.61% of the population in Gauteng is working in this sector.
Jacobs, Elne, Punt, Cecilia
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Farm Employment Transitions: A Markov Chain Analysis with Self-Selectivity [PDF]
A stationary, first-order Markov chain model with selection bias correction for legal status is estimated by maxixmum likelihood methods using the National Agricultural Worker Survey data for 1989-2004 to evaluate the likelihood of workers staying in U.S.
Emerson, Robert D. +2 more
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EQUITY SCHEMES IN SOUTH AFRICA: BENEFITS DELIVERED TO FARM WORKERS AS FUNCTION OF COMMERCIAL FARMERS' STRATEGY [PDF]
With the end of Apartheid, the South African Government created and corrected agricultural factor and product market failures in its attempt to improve the distribution of wealth and incorporate previously disadvantaged farmers into the mainstream of ...
Arellano-Vaca, Juan Francisco
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Working Time: How Do Farmers Juggle With It and How Has It Impacted Their Family Total Income [PDF]
Employment in agriculture has changed drastically over the last fifty years. While the share of self-employed farmers has remained relatively stable over that period, the contribution of paid workers and of unpaid family workers to agricultural ...
Cloutier, Sylvain
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IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE AGRICULTURAL LABOR MARKET: THE EFFECT ON JOB DURATION [PDF]
We have proposed and estimated a Heckman-type two stage model with legal status of farm workers using an ordered probit model in the first stage and a duration model in the second stage. Using the National Agricultural Workers Survey, self-reported legal
Emerson, Robert D. +2 more
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Salud Pública de México, 2004 OBJETIVO: Evaluar las diferencias en la prevalencia de síntomas de origen muscarínico y nicotínico, y el nivel de colinesterasa eritrocítica de jornaleras y jornaleros agrícolas, antes de la exposición a plaguicidas.
Martha Edilia Palacios-Nava +1 more
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Are workers close to cities paid higher non-agricultural wages in rural China? [PDF]
In the present study, we investigate whether workers close to cities are paid higher non-agricultural wages than workers in outlying rural areas.
Chloé DUVIVIER +2 more
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SafetyThe occupational health and safety of agricultural workers is a topic that has a direct impact on the agricultural sector worldwide. For this reason, investigations into ergonomic factors are relevant to the health and safety of agricultural workers.
Víctor Manuel Ramos-García +5 more
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