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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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San, Shmuel |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Labor supply and directed technical change: Evidence from the termination of the Bracero program in 1964 |
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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15(1), Jan, 2023: p.136-163 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
This paper studies the impact of labor supply on the creation of new technology, exploiting a large exogenous shock to the US agricultural labor supply caused by the termination of the Bracero agreements between the US and Mexico at the end of 1964. Using a text-search algorithm allocating patents to crops, I show a negative labor-supply shock induced a sharp increase in innovation in technologies related to more affected crops. The effect is stronger for technology related to labor-intensive production tasks. Farm-value dynamics indicate that, despite the positive technology reaction, the policy change was undesirable for farm owners.- Reproduced |
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics |
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LABOUR SUPPLY |
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Articles |
