Purpose of presentation: • To share information about our ongoing research with Peter Dixon and Maureen Rimmer of Monash University about how possible changes to U.S. immigration law might affect the U.S. economy • Our focus is the impact of alternative labor-market scenarios associated with these changes on U.S. agriculture and the market for hired farm labor • Main research tool: A computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the U.S. economy called USAGE • Financed in part by a cooperative agreement between ERS and Monash University.
