[PDF] Evaluating The Effects Of The H2 A Temporary Agricultural Visa Program In Mitigating Farm Labor Shortages And Maintaining Business Viability In The Southeastern United States eBook

Author : Odeidra Devon Williams
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 2018
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A critical concern of farmers in the United States over time has been the inability to consistently employ reliable domestic laborers to fulfill the needs of their operations. The H-2A Temporary Agricultural Visa Program is the only legal option to allow foreign workers, who have been a staple in supplying farm labor, to work in the U.S. agricultural industry. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of the H2-A program on the operations of farmers who have previously used the program and attempt to shed light on the economic conditions within a county that would make using the H2-A program an option. This research summarizes a survey conducted with farmers in the Southeastern U.S. who applied to the H2-A program to obtain workers. A backward stepwise regression is used to analyze the effects of H2-A workers in North Carolina and Georgia.

Author : Paulina M. Irigaray
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2011-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1599423820

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The majority of the people who make up the United States' seasonal agricultural workforce are nonimmigrant Mexican citizens. Immigration policies such as the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) and the H-2A agricultural guest worker program were meant to encourage growers to employ legal labor workforces. A study of the laws and practices that eventually resulted in the H-2A program shows how and why the demographics are predominantly Mexican. In addition, such study is revealing as to why the US enacted the H-2A program-including definitional details of the program itself. However, does this program really work? This question has radically different answers. In theory, the program seems to be well designed; but, in practice, it does not function as intended because of its many shortcomings, loopholes, open-ended issues, and poor enforcement. I will analyze and demonstrate how these inadequacies perpetuate illegal immigration and exploitation of both legal and illegal seasonal agricultural farm workers. Lastly, I will offer a composite of recommendations for legislative reform of the H-2A program; as well as provide pertinent, resourceful questions for further research.

Author : Michael A. Clemens
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 2017
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We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian workers differs markedly from the effects of more traditional forms of assistance to Haiti, in three ways: The economic benefits are shared roughly equally between Haiti and the United States; these benefits are very large, including raising the value of Haitian workers' labor by a multiple of fifteen; and the portion of the benefits accruing to Haiti is uncommonly well targeted for the direct benefit of poor Haitian households. We discuss implementation challenges faced by the program and the potential for policies of this kind to complement more traditional forms of development and humanitarian assistance.

Author : Steven Zahniser
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2012-06-07
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ISBN : 9781477610688

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Large shifts in the supply of foreign-born, hired farm labor resulting from substantial changes in U.S. immigration laws or policies could have significant economic implications. A computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the U.S. economy is used to evaluate how changes in the supply of foreign-born labor might affect all sectors of the economy, including agriculture. Two scenarios are considered: an increase in the number of temporary nonimmigrant, foreign-born farmworkers, such as those admitted under the H-2A Temporary Agricultural Program, and a decrease in the number of unauthorized workers in all sectors of the economy. Longrun economic outcomes for agricultural output and exports, wages and employment levels, and national income accruing to U.S.-born and foreign-born, permanent resident workers in these two scenarios are compared with a base forecast reflecting current immigration laws and policies.