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Coverage of Agricultural Workers Under the Unemployment Compensation Amendment of 1976

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

G. Joachim Elterich
G. Joachim Elterich*
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Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
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Abstract

The “Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1976” are expected to insure about two-fifths of all hired agricultural workers. Large interstate variations in the proportion of workers insured result from their differing work histories and state's qualifying provisions. Of these insured workers, three-tenths will receive benefits, ranging from about $250 to $1,000 depending upon the state benefit schedule and the worker's employment history. Average benefits amount to 14 percent of earnings of the workers which average $3,613. Nearly one-fourth of the beneficiaries will exhaust their benefit entitlements.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , April 1978 , pp. 23 - 33
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This research was funded by NEC-21, the succssor project of NE-58 (“Economic and Sociological Studies of Agricultural Labor in the Northeast States”), and by the USDL, ETA, UI Service. Published with approval of the director of the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station as Miscellaneous Paper 809.

I want to express my appreciation to Mrs. Linda Graham for expert programming and editorial assistance and to Drs. R. Bieker, Delaware State College, D. Fisher, Cornell, B. Emerson, University of Florida, A. Shapley, Michigan State University, D. Thatch, Rutgers and anonymous reviewers for valuable comments on earlier drafts on this paper.

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