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Profile of Hired Farmworkers, 1998 Annual Averages
- 英文名称:
- Profile of Hired Farmworkers, 1998 Annual Averages
- 作者:
- Jack L. Runyan
- 工作单位:
- USDA's Economic Research Service
- 关键词:
- Hired farmworkers; annual averages; demographic characteristics; hours worked; median weekly earnings;
- 年份:
- 2000
- 出版地:
- Washington, DC, USA
- 总页数:
- 48 pp
- 语种:
- English
- 摘要:
- An average of 875,000 persons 15 years of age and older did hired farmwork each week as their primary job in 1998. An additional 63,000 people did hired farmwork each week as their secondary job. Hired farmworkers were more likely than the typical U.S. wage and salary worker to be male, Hispanic, younger, less educated, never married, and not U.S. citizens. The West (42 percent) and South (31.4 percent) census regions accounted for almost three-fourths of the hired farmworkers. The rate of unemployment in the hired farm labor force (11.8 percent) was more than double that (4.5 percent) for all wage and salary workers. Hired farmworkers were also more likely to be paid less than the minimum wage, and to be low-wage workers. Consequently, their median weekly earnings continued to be much lower than those of all wage and salary workers. However, hired farmworkers' real median weekly earnings increased 4 percent between 1990 and 1998, while earnings for all wage and salary workers increased only 2 percent. This report examines regional and structural patterns of farm labor use, and demographic and employment characteristics of hired farmworkers, using data from the 1997 Census of Agriculture and the 1998 Current Population Survey (CPS) earnings microdata file.
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