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Migration of Seasonal Agricultural Workers

Author: Perloff, Jeffrey, M.; Lynch, Lori
Date Published: 1998


Which hired agricultural workers are most likely to migrate? Are workers without legal status more or less likely to migrate than others? What are the returns to migrating? Do migrants' earnings rise due to higher wages, more hours, or both? To answer these questions, we estimate the impact of legal status, other worker attributes, and other factors on migration decisions using a "mover-stayer" model of migration, which takes into account possible systematic, unobserved differences in those who migrate and those who do not. This model is estimated using the US Department of Labor's National Agricultural Workers Study (NAWS) cross-sectional, longitudinal data base.

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