Pre-employment costs associated with H-2A agricultural workers and the effects of the ‘60-minute rule’-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Pre-employment costs associated with H-2A agricultural workers and the effects of the ‘60-minute rule’

Published:2017-05-04 Issue:3 Volume:20 Page:335-346
ISSN:1559-2448
Container-title:International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
language:en
Short-container-title:International Food and Agribusiness Management Review

Author:

Roka Fritz M.¹,Simnitt Skyler²,Farnsworth Derek³

Affiliation:

1. Associate Professor, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Southwest Research and Education Center, 2685 State Road 29 North, Immokalee, FL 34142, USA.

2. Graduate Student, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Food and Resource Economics Department, P.O. Box 110240, McCarty B 1109, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

3. Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Food and Resource Economics Department, P.O. Box 110240, McCarty B 1109, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

Abstract

Agricultural employers increasingly are turning to the foreign guest worker program, known as H-2A, as a means to secure a legal workforce. This paper outlines the procedural aspects and costs of recruiting and hiring H-2A workers. Cost data is from a 2014 survey of citrus harvesters and defines pre-employment costs as filing fees, advertising, surety bonds, travel, and housing. The pre-employment costs associated with guest workers are estimated to be nearly $ 2,000 per worker. The survey was motivated by the ‘60-minute rule’ imposed by the U.S. Department of Labor prior to the 2012-13 citrus harvesting season. Cost data were collected across two crop season, 2012-13 and 2013-14, to analyze the cost implications of the rule. We found that the 60-minute rule significantly increased filing fees. These fees, however, represent a very small share of total costs and overall pre-employment costs associated with the H-2A program did not significantly change.

Publisher

Wageningen Academic Publishers

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/pdf/10.22434/IFAMR2016.0033

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