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Farm Labor Wage Issues

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  • Pollack, Susan L.
  • Coltrane, Robert
  • Jackson, William R., Jr.

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Changes in regulations that would have allowed employers of H-2 temporary foreign agricultural workers to pay the Federal minimum wage instead of the higher adverse effect wage, would have lowered the estimated 1980 wage bill of H-2 employers by about 19 percent. The U.S. Department of Labor in consultation with the Department of Justice, operates the H-2 temporary foreign worker program. The non-wage costs incurred by employers of H-2 workers, primarily for housing, food, and transportation, was highest at $1,198 per worker on Virginia tobacco farms. Extending minimum wage coverage to all farms and hired farmworkers in the United States would have increased the 1980 farm wage bill by about 3.7 percent.

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  • Pollack, Susan L. & Coltrane, Robert & Jackson, William R., Jr., 1982. "Farm Labor Wage Issues," Staff Reports 324698, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerssr:324698
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.324698
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    1. 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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