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- Title
Assessing post-harvest labor shortages, wages, and welfare.
- Authors
Cassey, Andrew J.; Lee, Kwanyoung; Sage, Jeremy; Tozer, Peter R.
- Abstract
For horticultural commodities, labor is necessary for post-harvest activities such as management, marketing, packing, and distribution. We create a model with pre- and post-harvest tasks and transportation network to study how a shortage in the pre-harvest labor market affects the post-harvest labor market and downstream commodity markets. Parameterized to U.S. pome and prunus industries, we find output prices are 16% greater, the prunus industry does less well adjusting, and producers benefit despite output reductions. Producers’ benefit comes almost exclusively from higher prices, but decreases when the resulting post-harvest labor shortage increases spoilage along the transportation network.
- Subjects
HORTICULTURE; HARVESTING; LABOR market; PRICE increases; WAGES
- Publication
Agricultural & Food Economics, 2018, Vol 6, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2193-7532
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s40100-018-0112-6