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Unemployment Insurance Coverage of Agriculture; Policy Alternatives for Selected States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Joachim G. Elterich*
Affiliation:
Agricultural & Food Economics, University of Delaware
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In October 1976, President Ford signed into law PL 94–566 (the “Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1976,” henceforth the law), which among other items extends unemployment insurance (UI) coverage to agricultural workers in establishments employing 10 or more workers for 20 weeks or more or with a high quarter payroll of at least $20,000, (henceforth the ‘10 in 20 or $20,000’ provision).

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Resource Economics
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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The author is very much indebted to Mrs. Linda Graham for assistance in the preparation of this paper. She wrote the extensive computer programs and was extremely helpful in technical and editorial matters. Comments to an earlier draft by Professors George Frick, ERS, at the University of New Hampshire, R. Smith and L. Reinschmiedt of the Dept. of Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Delaware were greatly appreciated. Published with approval of the director of the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station as miscellaneous paper 795, University of Delaware, Newark.

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