Foreign workers have been an important part of U.S. labor-intensive segments of agriculture throughout U.S. history. Typically, these are specialty crops such as tree crops, vegetables, and nursery and greenhouse crops. Each requires large amounts of labor relative to other resources used in production. Tree crop and vegetable production on only has very large labor requirements, but the requir...

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According to a survey in 2008, about 50 percent of Americans perceived immigration as a problem rather than as an opportunity (Transatlantic Trends 2008). Similar surveys conducted in the prerecession years of 2007 and before also showed that Americans were much less supportive of more open immigration policies than they were of other aspects of globalization such as free trade or free capital ...

Services. The opinions expressed in the paper are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of DHHS or the Institute. Abstract This paper investigates whether the parameters of labor demand functions are sensitive to alternative methods of estimation. 'The assumption that the production technology is of the Generalized Leontief type implies that, the demand system can ...

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This paper develops a series of simple heterogeneous-agents economies in order to study the welfare implications of labor market inequality. We perform two types of welfare calculations. First we compute the welfare cost of a rise in labor market risk, given a particular asset market structure (complete markets, incomplete markets, autarky). Second, we compute the expected gain from completing ...

"This paper presents a life-cycle model where migrants determine re-migration and consumption simultaneously in a stochastic environment. Whether precautionary savings of migrants are above or below those of natives is ambiguous in general--the sign depends on the risk in host- and home-country labor markets and on the correlation of labor market shocks. Furthermore, the effect of an uncertain ...

Real Business Cycles are often studied in the context of the general equlibrium framework with competitive markets, flexible wages and prices. This restricts the effective application of intertemporal models to the real world business cycles. Stickiness of wages and prices have been considered in recent monopolistic competition models. In this paper, we go a step further and separate labor supp...