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The impact of Canadian labour experience on the households of Mexicans

27 Nov 2007

After bringing into focus the key elements of the program, including the primary results of a survey of a cross-section of Mexicans employed on Canadian farms, this paper will highlight the program’s positive impact on the workers’ families, especially with respect to living standards and their chil- dren’s education, and will show that the intervention of both governments — Canadian and Mexi- can [...] As a binational program, the SAWP puts in play This study aims to summarize the characteristics various government agencies, primarily the of the SAWP as well as some primary results of Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Depart- a survey involving Mexican farm labourers in ments of Labour. [...] Based on the Program machine-intensive environ- Office data in Mexico, the ment when, in reality, they are proportion of nominal Mexican manual labourers and operate workers relative to the total in an environment that number of workers sent was When talking with the work- demands a great deal of between 48 per cent and 65 ers, it becomes obvious that individual physical effort. [...] That percentage drops Classification of workers sur- Number of in relationship with the number of years workers veyed by number of seasons workers % participate in the program (e.g. [...] The analysis of the above data is limited to the children of workers who have left school First, the children of workers in the two groups and are now primarily working (200 cases).
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Authors

Verduzco, Gustavo

ISBN
1894992466
Pages
18
Published in
Canada

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