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The effects of job site sanitation and living conditions on the health and welfare of agricultural workers

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  • Frisvold, George
  • Mines, Richard
  • Perloff, Jeffrey M

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The lack of field toilets on agricultural job sites increases the probability of gastrointestinal disorders by 60%. Adverse living conditions significantly increase the probability of gastrointestinal, respiratory, and muscular problems. These three health problems do not appear to increase the probability that a worker's family is on welfare or lower workers' earnings. Respiratory problems, however, substantially increase the probability that the worker receives unemployment compensation.

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  • Frisvold, George & Mines, Richard & Perloff, Jeffrey M, 1987. "The effects of job site sanitation and living conditions on the health and welfare of agricultural workers," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt0gm5843r, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  • Handle: RePEc:cdl:agrebk:qt0gm5843r
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    1. Gabbard, Susan M. & Perloff, Jeffrey M., 1996. "All it takes is confidence: job search confidence and farm workers' wages, benefits, and working conditions," CUDARE Working Papers 47280, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
    2. Terrance M. Hurley & James B. Kliebenstein & Peter F. Orazem, 2000. "An Analysis of Occupational Health in Pork Production," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 82(2), pages 323-333.
    3. MacInnis, Bo, 2004. "Pesticides And Child Health: Evidence From Hispanic Children In The U.S," 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO 20184, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    4. Findeis, Jill L. & Chitose, Yoshimi, 1994. "Hired Farm Labor: U.S. Trends and Survey Results for Pennsylvania," AE & RS Research Reports 257732, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.

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