Organizers:

Barry T. Hirsch, Trinity University

Session Chairs:

Barry T. Hirsch, Trinity University

Papers:

"Recent Trends in Compensation Inequality"
Brooks Pierce, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Contact Author)

"Match Bias in the National Compensation Survey"
Michael Lettau, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Contact Author)

"Low Wage Workers, the Minimum Wage, and Job Turnover"
Rosemary Hyson, Baruch College, CUNY
Anne Polivka, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Contact Author)

"What Do Male Nonworkers Do?"
Harley Frazis, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jay Stewart, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Discussants:

Barry T. Hirsch, Trinity University
Christopher R. Bollinger, University of Kentucky
David Macpherson, Florida State University
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Georgia State University

Organizers:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Georgia State University

Papers:

"Smoking, Labor Force Attachment, and the Wages of Older Female Workers"
Brian S. Armour, Centers for Disease Control
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Georgia State University
M. Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

"Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect"
Erdal Tekin, Georgia State University
Janet Currie, University of California - Los Angeles

"Searching for Peer Group Effects: A Test of the Contagion Hypothesis"
Laura M. Argys, University of Colorado - Denver
Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado - Denver

"The Taste for Vengeance"
Naci Mocan, University of Colorado - Denver (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Pinka Chatterji, Harvard Medical School
Christopher J. Ruhm, University of North Carolina - Greensboro
Angela K. Dills, Clemson University
Sara Markowitz, Rutgers University