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U.S. Hired Farm Workforce Is Aging

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In 2017, roughly 2 million people spent all or part of their year as agricultural wage and salary workers. Over the past decade, the average age of hired farm laborers has risen steadily, from age 35.8 years in 2006 to 38.8 years in 2017. This increase has been entirely driven by the aging of foreign-born farm laborers, who comprised between 54 and 58 percent of the workforce over this period. Their average age rose from 35.7 in 2006 to 41.6 in 2017. In contrast, the average age of farm laborers born in the United States has remained roughly constant.

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  • Hertz, Thomas, 2019. "U.S. Hired Farm Workforce Is Aging," Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 0(04), May.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersaw:302707
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302707
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    1. Monica Fisher & Paul A. Lewin & Ryanne Pilgeram, 2022. "Farmworkers and the gender wage gap: An empirical analysis of wage inequality in US agriculture," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 44(4), pages 2145-2163, December.
    2. Alexandra E. Hill & Jesse Burkhardt, 2021. "Peers in the Field: The Role of Ability and Gender in Peer Effects among Agricultural Workers," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 103(3), pages 790-811, May.

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    Farm Management; Labor and Human Capital;

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