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Title

THE EFFECT OF THE BRACERO ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN CALIFORNIA.

Authors

Wise, Donald E.

Abstract

Presents a study tgat attempted to empirically evaluate the validity of the harvesting labor hypothesis for two major California crops and to investigate the other adjustments that growers might make to offset the loss of the foreign labor supply. Estimated wage-elasticities of labor supply; Details of two models used to evaluate the labor market adjustments; Labor supply and demand equations.

Subjects

CALIFORNIA; UNITED States; FOREIGN workers; ELASTICITY (Economics); LABOR supply; LABOR demand; CROPS

Publication

Economic Inquiry, 1974, Vol 12, Issue 4, p547

ISSN

0095-2583

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1111/j.1465-7295.1974.tb00421.x