The effect of Wage Increase on the U.S. Lettuce Market. | [Sarhad Journal of Agriculture • 2018]

Author(s):

1. Mohammed Al Mahish: Department of Agribusiness and Consumer Science, College of Agriculture and Food Science, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

Abstract:

Introduction results show that buyers obtained most of the surplus resulting from lettuce sales. Bohall (1972) analyzes lmost all lettuce consumed in the U.S. is pro- winter lettuce market prices at shipping points and Aduced domestically (Glaser, Thompson and wholesale terminal markets. He concludes that the Handy, 2001; Welbaum, 2015) with the majority of winter lettuce market is a competitive market. Hamproduction located in California and Arizona. The ming and Mittlehammer (1980) develop an imperfect U.S. is also an exporter of lettuce. On the other hand, competitive model to analyze the U.S. lettuce market. Canada, Taiwan, and Mexico are the main importing Schwartzman (2008) focuses on the issue of lettuce countries. Despite the fact that labor is an important pickers job and immigrant workers. Calvin and Marinput in agricultural production, recently published tin (2010) indicate that labor is an important input in papers in the economic literature have not examined lettuce production. This is because lettuce harvesting the impact of changes in labor wage on lettuce market. is a labor-intensive job and mostly depends on hand harvesting. Preston (2007) also confirms the fact that lettuce production in the U.S. is a labor intensive job that relies on immigrant workers, mostly from Mexico. Labor productivity for lettuce transplanting is the highest compared with broccoli, carrots, peppers, and squash (Weil et al., 2017).

Page(s): 656-662

DOI: DOI not available

Published: Journal: Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Year: 2018

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