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GTAP Resource #5220

"Immigration reform scenarios for U.S. agriculture"
by Dixon, Peter and Maureen Rimmer


Abstract
The general equilibrium method adopted here reveals several effects of agriculture-focused immigration policies that would not have emerged in partial equilibrium analysis applied to agriculture. Our general equilibrium model includes specifications of: inter-sectoral labor flows; the role of vacancies in determining occupational choices; and macroeconomic relationships. This enables us to show that agricultural guest-worker and legalization programs are likely to: have similar effects on the agricultural sector; cause a gradual welfare-enhancing transformation of the occupational mix of incumbent employment away from agriculture; have small (possibly negative) effects on farm income; and have positive effects on aggregate capital, employment and GDP.


Resource Details (Export Citation) GTAP Keywords
Category: 2017 Conference Paper
Status: Published
By/In: Presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Date: 2017
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Created: Dixon, P. (4/7/2017)
Updated: Dixon, P. (4/7/2017)
Visits: 1,342
- Dynamic modeling
- Labor market issues
- Migration
- Agricultural policies
- North America


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