MOTIVATIONS OF MEXICAN WORKERS TO PARTICIPATE IN CANADA’S SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL WORKERS PROGRAM

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Published: Dec 17, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/fe.01851667p.2023.323.83825

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Dra
Universidad Autóma del Estado de México
Miguel Ángel Mendoza González
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Judith I. Stallmann
University of Missouri

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This study finds three main motivations for Mexican workers to participate in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (CSAWP): Increasing household livelihood and welfare, investing in farming skills and assets, and improving children’s education and family housing. A factor analysis and a system of equations are used to find out which sociodemographic and economic characteristics of the migrants and their families are associated with each motivation. The most important results show that having more than four children along with being a farmer are positively associated with investing in farming skills and assets but being an agricultural day laborer in Mexico and having less than two children are not associated with any of the motivations.

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Carvajal Gutiérrez, L., Mendoza González, M. Ángel, & Stallmann, J. I. . (2022). MOTIVATIONS OF MEXICAN WORKERS TO PARTICIPATE IN CANADA’S SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL WORKERS PROGRAM. Investigación Económica, 82(323), 153–178. https://doi.org/10.22201/fe.01851667p.2023.323.83825

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Dra, Universidad Autóma del Estado de México

Professor of Economics at the Universdad Autónoma del Estado de México

Miguel Ángel Mendoza González, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Professor of Economics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Judith I. Stallmann, University of Missouri

Professor of Community Development Extension, Agricultural and Applied Economics, Rural Sociology and Public Affairs, University of Missouri

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