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Assessing the impact of a labor shortage on a post-harvest activities and markets
Technical Bulletin (Washington State University. Extension), 23, Washington State University Extension
05/2016
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/6302
Abstract
Labor is an important input into the production and distribution of US horticultural commodities and products. Labor shortages are often thought of as a pre-harvest problem, and the economic impacts of labor shortages are estimated with respect to production. We find a pre-harvest labor shortage creates a post-harvest labor shortage as well, and leads to increased prices of more than 15%. The apple industry is able to adjust to the labor shortages better than the peach industry because consumers are more sensitive to price increases of peaches than apples.
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- Title
- Assessing the impact of a labor shortage on a post-harvest activities and markets
- Creators
- Andrew J. Cassey (Author)Kwanyoung Lee (Author)Jeremy Sage (Author)Peter R. Tozer (Author)
- Academic Unit
- Publications, WSU Extension
- Series
- Technical Bulletin (Washington State University. Extension); 23
- Publisher
- Washington State University Extension; Pullman, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900501937001842
- Copyright
- In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report