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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