PROPOSED IMMIGRATION POLICY REFORM & FARM LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES

Table 1. Continued.

Variable___________	Definition
Years with current employer	Number of years of employment worker has completed with current employer. One year is measured as one or more days per year (NAWS)
Farm work weeks	Farm work weeks completed in the last year =1 if worker had been employed in agriculture, either full-time or part-time, while living in native (foreign) country
Foreign farm work experience	=0 if worker had been employed in non-agricultural sector or had never worked while living in native (foreign) country = 1 if employed by a grower
Grower	= 0 if employed by a farm labor contractor
Age	Respondent age in years
Age²	Age squared
Experience	Years of U.S. farm work
Experience² Farm work in the last year	Experience squared Months of US farm work in the previous year (prior to work grid estimate)
Weeks spent abroad____________	Number of weeks abroad last year

^a Data were sourced from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (1989-2006). Definitions enclosed in quotation
marks are as they appear in the NAWS Codebook. ^b This would include English/ESL, citizenship, literacy, job
training and Adult Basic Education classes, GED/high school equivalency classes, college or university classes, and
Even Start and Migrant Education classes.

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