Substitution between Immigrant and Native Farmworkers in the United States
Does Legal Status Matter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9745306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xuan Wei (0000-0002-4130-3257, University of Florida, corresponding author), Gülcan Önel (0000-0002-1446-1356, University of Florida), Zhengfei Guan (0000-0003-0777-6410, Florida Gulf Coast University), Fritz Roka (Florida Gulf Coast University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IZA Journal of Development and Migration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2520-1786 • E-ISSN: 2520-1786 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.2478/izajodm-2019-0007 |
| OpenAlex | W2964411122 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
The policy debate surrounding the employment of immigrant workers in U.S. agriculture centers around the extent to which immigrant farmworkers adversely affect the economic opportunities of native farmworkers. To help answer this question, we propose a three-layer nested constant elasticity of substitution (CES) framework to investigate the substitutability among heterogeneous farmworker groups based on age, skill, and legal status utilizing National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) data from 1989 through 2012. We use farmwork experience and type of task performed as alternative proxies for skill to disentangle the substitution effect between U.S. citizens, authorized immigrants, and unauthorized immigrant farmworkers. Results show that substitutability between the three legal status groups is small; neither authorized nor unauthorized immigrant farmworkers have a significant impact on the employment of native farmworkers
Agriculture · Business · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Legal status · Political science · Substitution (logic · Survey data collection · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |