Philip Martin
· Professor of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Davis · Technology and Operations Management
Active 1967–2026
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About
Philip Martin is a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis. His research focuses on agricultural economics, resource economics, and policy analysis. As a distinguished professor, he has contributed to the understanding of agricultural markets, resource management, and economic policies affecting agriculture. His work encompasses a broad range of topics within agricultural and resource economics, emphasizing policy implications and economic analysis related to agriculture and natural resources.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Internal medicine
- Oncology
- Cancer research
- Biology
- Immunology
- Chemistry
- Gastroenterology
Selected publications
US Farm Employment and Farm Workers
2024-06-17 · 5 citations
reference-entry1st authorCorrespondingAbstract The average employment of hired workers in US agriculture is about 1.5 million. Farm labor markets are significantly different from most other labor markets. For example, they are spread out over a wide geographic region, and the demand for labor depends upon a number of factors, including weather, wages, and the price of goods in some cases. Due to the seasonality of agricultural production and job turnover, some 2.5 million people are employed for wages on US farms sometime during a t…
2023-10-19 · 4 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingAbstract Five million Mexican-born farm workers are employed on North American farms sometime during a typical year, including 50,000 in Canada, 3 million in Mexico, and 2 million in the United States. Almost all of these workers were raised in poverty in rural Mexico. Mexican farm workers who are employed on American and Canadian farms earn at least ten times more than they would earn in Mexico, whether they are guest workers, legal immigrants or naturalized citizens, or unauthorized workers. M…
Farm Guest Workers: US Experience
Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies · 2025-06-14 · 3 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingABSTRACT The US was one of the first countries to develop farm guest worker programs with Bracero programs during WWI and WWII outside regular immigration laws, followed by the H‐2(A) farm guest worker programme included in immigration law in the 1950s. The US tried to legalise the farm workforce in the mid‐1980s, but wound up spreading unauthorized workers throughout US agriculture and the nonfarm economy. Fewer unauthorized farm workers arrived after the 2008–09 recession, which helped the H‐2…
More jobs and less seasonal employment in California agriculture since 1990
California Agriculture · 2023-08-18 · 2 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorEmployment in California agriculture has increased over the past 30 years and has become less seasonal. There were an average of 404,000 farm jobs in California in 2020, 10% more than average employment of 367,000 in 1990. Meanwhile, seasonality, as measured by peak month employment divided by trough month employment, fell 22% over three decades, from 1.8 in 1990 to 1.4 in 2020. Most farmworkers have one farm employer a year, although that employer may be a labor contractor who moves workers fro…
Farm Workers in the United States
2023-10-19 · 2 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingAbstract Agriculture has unusual demographics. Most farm employers are older, white, and US citizens, while most farm workers are younger, minority, and noncitizens. The slowdown in unauthorized Mexico-US migration since 2008–9 means that there is an aging and settled Mexican-born farm workforce as well as youthful Mexican H-2A guest workers. Half of US farm workers are in the Pacific coast states, including a third in California, where state governments have enacted laws that require farm worke…
Frequent coauthors
- 93 shared
Maureen Baran
- 93 shared
Terry Van Dyke
- 80 shared
Jerome Schlomer
National Cancer Institute
- 77 shared
Theresa M. Guerin
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
- 54 shared
Zoë Weaver Ohler
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
- 53 shared
Deborah B. Householder
National Institutes of Health
- 52 shared
Ming Yi
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- 50 shared
Rajaâ El Meskini
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Education
- 1975
Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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