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Rent Seeking, The Bracero Program And Current Mexican Farm Labor Policy

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  • Lisa Basurto
  • Charles Delorme
  • David Kamerschen

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This Paper focus 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. [J4, K2, N4]

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  • Lisa Basurto & Charles Delorme & David Kamerschen, 2001. "Rent Seeking, The Bracero Program And Current Mexican Farm Labor Policy," International Economic Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(1), pages 21-40.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:intecj:v:15:y:2001:i:1:p:21-40
    DOI: 10.1080/10168730100000002
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    1. Sami Fethi & Hatice Imamoglu, 2021. "The impact of rent‐seeking on economic growth in the six geographic regions: Evidence from static and dynamic panel data analysis," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 26(4), pages 5349-5362, October.
    2. Charles DeLorme & Stacey Isom & David Kamerschen, 2005. "Rent seeking and taxation in the Ancient Roman Empire," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(6), pages 705-711.

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