US workers' willingness to accept meatpacking jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID‐19
discrete choice model
job attributes
meatpacking employment
Journal
Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
ISSN: 2769-2485
Titre abrégé: J Agric Appl Econ Asssoc
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9918419160006676
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2022
Apr 2022
Historique:
received:
18
11
2021
accepted:
30
03
2022
entrez:
7
7
2022
pubmed:
8
7
2022
medline:
8
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We implement a discrete choice experiment to examine the impact of COVID-19 exposure risk, unemployment risk, enhanced and extended unemployment benefits, and job attributes on low-skilled workers' willingness to accept (WTA) meatpacking jobs. With a sample average WTA wage of $22.77/h, the current national average meatpacking wage of approximately $15/h is too low for these workers to consider this employment opportunity. Enhanced layoff risk and exposure to COVID-19 further deterred respondents, while health insurance, retirement benefits, and a signing bonus enhanced respondents' WTA. The additional unemployment benefits of the CARES Act neither deterred nor encouraged respondents WTA.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35795541
doi: 10.1002/jaa2.8
pii: JAA28
pmc: PMC9087796
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
47-60Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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