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Title: |
Rent Seeking, the Bracero Program and Current Mexican Farm Labor Policy |
| Author: |
Basurto, Lisa;
DeLorme, Charles D., Jr.; Kamerschen, David R. |
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Affiliation: |
Putnam Investments, Boston; U GA |
| Source: |
International Economic Journal, Spring 2001, v. 15, no. 1, pp. 21-40 |
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Publication Date: |
Spring 2001 |
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Abstract: |
This paper focuses on how official support
for labor importation (specifically the Bracero program) varies with the
economic rent available to specific special interest groups. The Bracero
program was the largest temporary "guest worker" labor program in US
history. This study examines the motives underlying the House and Senate
vote on the final extension of the vote on the Bracero Program in 1963
and the current House vote on the Mexican farm labor policy in 1996. It
tests whether legislators respond to the rent-seeking behavior of
competing special interest groups. The actual testimony on the Bracero
program is used to identify some of the competing special interest
groups and to develop a prohibit model of the vote. |
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