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Title: Labor Supply and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Termination of the Bracero Program in 1964

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Publication Year: 2022

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Abstract: In this paper, I offer an empirical test for the effect of labor supply on the creation of new technologies. To do so, I utilize a large exogenous shock to the labor supply in the US agricultural sector caused by the termination of the Bracero agreements between the United States and Mexico in 1964. The Bracero agreements were a set of three bilateral agreements between the United States and Mexico to regulate bilateral flows of temporary low-skill labor, spanning 1942–1964 (Clemens et al. 2018). Varying substantially between crops, Bracero workers accounted for about 11% of the total seasonal farm workforce in 1964. The exclusion of those workers from the labor force generated a sharp decline in the labor supply in a very short period.

Url: https://mulysan.github.io/San_bracero.pdf

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Authors: San, Shmuel

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Institution: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Pages: 1-66

Publisher Location: Jerusalem

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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