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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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After the farm crisis : religiosity in the rural United States
Orman, Wafa Hakim - 2013
agriculture. Chen (2010) describes increased religiosity in Indonesia following the 1998 financial crisis, and this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774263
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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice
Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as the policies intended to increase their sustainability--increase costs to agricultural producers, with unknown consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510584
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Academic Engagement, Commercialization, and Scholarship : Empirical Evidence from Agricultural and Life Scientists at U.S. Land-grant Universities
Barham, Bradford L. - 2020
This article examines the involvement of agricultural and life science faculty at U.S. land grant universities in two types of university-industry relations: academic engagement (sponsored research, industry collaborations, and presentations), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479212
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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Alston, Julian M. - 2020
U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms … the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481789
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Immigration restrictions as active labor market policy : evidence from the Mexican bracero exclusion
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017
An important class of active labor market policy has received little rigorous impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to improve the terms of employment for domestic workers by deliberately shrinking the workforce. Recent advances in the theory of endogenous technical change suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607505
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Short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification : evidence from the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid
Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2017
employment, rural farm population, and rural property values, but there was little impact on the local non-agriculture economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785614
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Internal Net Worth and the Investment Process : An Application to U.S. Agriculture
Hubbard, R. Glenn - 1990
Recent models of firm investment decisions stressing informational imperfections in capital markets provide a foundation for interpreting evidence that movements in internal finance can predict investment opportunities. While such evidence is suggestive, it is often open to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475696
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Does The Samaritan's Dilemma Matter? Evidence From U.S. Agriculture
Deryugina, Tatyana - 2016
.S. agriculture, where both private crop insurance and frequent federal disaster assistance are present. We find that bailout …
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Spatial Structural Change
Eckert, Fabian; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Between 1880 and 1920, the US agricultural employment share fell from 50% to 25%. However, despite aggregate demand shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non-agricultural parts of the US. We propose a spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388845