A Declining Farm Workforce: Analysis of Panel Data from Rural Mexico
分析了1980至2010年墨西哥农村的面板数据，发现农业劳动力供给显著下降，这解释了美国农场工资的上涨，并探讨了非农经济增长、出生率下降和教育提升等因素的影响。
Abstract Analysis of nationally representative individual‐level panel data from 1980 to 2010 reveals a significant negative trend in the agricultural labor supply from rural Mexico, which is the primary source of hired workers for U.S. farms. These findings offer an explanation for the rise over time in U.S. farm wages. Concomitants of the agricultural transformation, including growth in the non‐farm economy, falling birth rates, and an increase in rural education, accelerate the transition of rural Mexicans out of farm work. Higher U.S. farm wages and increased border enforcement slow the transition, but the combined impact of these offsetting variables is relatively small. A diminishing farm labor supply has far‐reaching implications for farmers, farm labor organizers, rural communities, and agricultural workers.