Labor Cost and Technology Adoption: Real Options Approach for the Case of Sugarcane Mechanization in Florida
Iwai, Nobuyuki; Emerson, Robert D.; Walters, Lurleen M.
2008

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Abstract

Specialty crop farmers have expressed concern about labor shortages and cost increases which may arise with immigration reform. The large-scale mechanization of the Florida sugarcane harvest during the 1970s/80s serves as an historical example of how technologies evolved due to changes in local labor market conditions.

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Title Labor Cost and Technology Adoption: Real Options Approach for the Case of Sugarcane Mechanization in Florida
Author(s) Iwai, Nobuyuki
Emerson, Robert D.
Walters, Lurleen M.
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Issue Date 2008
Publication Type Conference Paper/ Presentation
DOI and Other Identifiers 10.22004/ag.econ.6758
Record Identifier https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/6758
PURL Identifier http://purl.umn.edu/6758
Language English
Total Pages 32
Record Appears in Southern Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA) > 2008 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2008, Dallas, Texas

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