The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780128164099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 241 str.

J. Edward Taylor; Diane Charlton

Spis treści

1. The Farm Labor Problem2. Agricultural Labor Demand3. Agricultural Labor Supply: Who Does Farm Work and Who Doesn't?4. Equilibrium and Immigration in the Farm Labor Market5. Labor in an Agricultural Household Model6. Farm Labor and Immigration Policy7. Farm Labor Organizing from Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers to Fair Foods8. The End of Farm Labor Abundance9. Robots in the Fields

O autorze

J. Edward Taylor is a professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He is a Fellow of both the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Ed co-authored the award-winning book Beyond Experiments in Development Economics: Local Economy-wide Impact Evaluation (Oxford University Press, 2014), Essentials of Development Economics (University of California Press, 2015), Essentials of Applied Econometrics (University of California Press, 2016) and Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is listed in Who's Who in Economics as one of the world's most cited economists. Ed has advised numerous foreign governments and international development agencies on matters related to economic development, and he has been an editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Diane Charlton is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. She completed her Ph.D. at University of California, Davis in 2016. Her dissertation focused on the causes and consequences of the agricultural transition, analyzing household panel data from rural Mexico. She has co-authored two award-winning papers on the declining farm labor supply from rural Mexico. She continues to research labor economics, agricultural markets, the economics of labor migration, and the economics of education.