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Taylor, J. Edward; Espenshade, Thomas J. – 1987
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 contains controversial provisions to allow temporary "replenishment" farmworkers to enter the United States to harvest perishable crops. This paper describes the role of legal and illegal foreign workers in California agriculture in relation to these provisions and the assumptions on which…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Employment Patterns, Farm Labor, Federal Legislation
Download full textPerloff, Jeffrey M. – 1990
This report examines the wage differential necessary to induce nonagricultural workers to work in agriculture. The responsiveness of labor supply to wage changes is important because the Immigration Reform and Control Act may reduce the supply of immigrant farm labor in the United States. A random sample of 931 males with a ninth grade education…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Agriculture, Career Choice, Demography
Gabbard, Susan; Goldring, Luin – 1991
This report examines the occupational mobility of agricultural workers in two California labor markets and the effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act and individual, job, and labor-market characteristics on such mobility. Interviews were conducted among a randomly selected sample of 162 households, which included 401 workers in southern…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Demography, Educational Attainment, Farm Labor
Vernez, Georges – 1993
Over the past 20 years, California has experienced a continuous, growing flow of Mexican immigrant laborers. Although Mexican labor was originally linked to agriculture, by 1980 Mexican-born labor was filling a substantial proportion of jobs in all sectors of the California economy, particularly in manufacturing. Because they are concentrated in…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Attainment, Immigrants, Labor Force
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Program Evaluation and Methodology Div. – 1988
The demand for legal foreign workers for temporary or seasonal agricultural work now permitted under what is known as the H-2A program will likely increase as the employer sanctions in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 limit the use of undocumented foreign workers. To protect U.S. farmworkers, the law requires that they be given first…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Employment Practices, Estimation (Mathematics), Farm Labor
Peer reviewedRosenberg, Howard R. – California Agriculture, 1989
Describes provisions of Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) allowing for Special Agricultural Workers (SAWs) and Replenishment Agricultural Workers (RAWs), to replace SAWs who leave the workforce. Describes government policy for implementing RAW program, determining need and supply, immigrant reporting requirements, eligibility…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Federal Regulation, Government Role, Immigrants
