Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240228 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] Agricultural and Food Economics [ISSN:] 2193-7532 [Volume:] 6 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 1-24
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
For horticultural commodities, labor is necessary for post-harvest activities such as management, marketing, packing, and distribution. We create a model with pre- and post-harvest tasks and transportation network to study how a shortage in the pre-harvest labor market affects the post-harvest labor market and downstream commodity markets. Parameterized to U.S. pome and prunus industries, we find output prices are 16% greater, the prunus industry does less well adjusting, and producers benefit despite output reductions. Producers' benefit comes almost exclusively from higher prices, but decreases when the resulting post-harvest labor shortage increases spoilage along the transportation network.
Subjects: 
Post-harvest
Labor shortage
Transportation
Pome
Prunus
Welfare
JEL: 
J43
Q13
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Document Type: 
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