Devadoss, Stephen; Luckstead, Jeff - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 40 (2008) 03
vegetable production, which is labor intensive, and 95% of the farmworkers in California are immigrants. Our findings show that … this concern is not valid in vegetable production because the addition of one new immigrant displaces only 0.0123 domestic … workers, and wage reduction is inconsequential. But one immigrant worker increases the vegetable production by $23,457 and …