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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Permanent Housing for Seasonal Workers? A Generalized Peak Load Investment Model for Farm Worker Housing
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| Autores: |
Qenani-Petrela, Eivis
Mittelhammer, Ronald C.
Wandschneider, Philip R.
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| Data: |
2008-12-01
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| Ano: |
2008
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| Palavras-chave: |
Farmworker housing
Investment rules
Peak load model
Public housing
Seasonal labor
Farm Management
Labor and Human Capital
Public Economics
R31
H75
J43
G31
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| Resumo: |
Many seasonal workers are housed in transitory accommodations, including tents and vehicles. In this study, we analyze the supply side of this problem by assuming that a public agent must house the workers through direct public investment. A peak load model is adapted to develop investment rules for the least-cost provision of seasonal worker housing, adding an interacting multi-season component to existing models. Based on this model and the data from three prototype projects, the majority of the least-cost investment would be in permanent, but seasonally occupied, housing.
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| Tipo: |
Journal Article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/45515
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| Relação: |
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics>Volume 40, Number 01, April 2008
JAAE
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| Formato: |
19
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