Farm Labor: The Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR)
Description:
American agricultural employers have long utilized foreign workers on a
temporary basis, regarding them as an important labor resource. At the same time,
the relatively low wages and adverse working conditions of such workers have
caused them to be viewed as a threat to domestic American workers. Some have
argued that foreign guest workers compete unfairly with U.S. workers — both in
terms of compensation that they are willing to accept and by making it somewhat
more difficult for domestic work…
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Date:
April 14, 2005
Creator:
Whittaker, William G.
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