Organizers:

Haydar Kurban, Howard University

Session Chairs:

Emily Blank, Howard University

Papers:

"Segregation of Workers: An Efficiency Wage Explanation of Job Hording and Ethnic Enclave Effects on Wages of Low Wage Workers"
Niki Dickerson, Rutgers University
William E. Spriggs, Howard University

"An Update of Rodgers and Freeman: 2001 to 2007"
William M. Rodgers, III, Rutgers University (Contact Author)

"Racial Differences in Income Inequality Across U.S. Regions"
Gary Hoover, University of Alabama
Mehmet Erdem Yaya, University of Alabama

"Vulnerability Index"
Mika Kato, Howard University
Haydar Kurban, Howard University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Gregory Price, Morehouse College
Phanindra V. Wunnava, Middlebury College
William Dodgers, Rutgers University

Session Chairs:

William E. Even, Miami University

Papers:

"Changes in Wage Structure in Urban India 1983-2004: A Quantile Regression Decomposition"
Mehtabul Azam, Southern Methodist University (Contact Author)

"Human Capital Risk and the Firmsize Wage Premium"
Danny Leung, Bank of Canada
Alexander Ueberfeldt, Bank of Canada (Contact Author)

"Occupational Composition and Wage Inequality"
Carol Scotese Lehr, Virginia Commonwealth University (Contact Author)

"Is Bigger Still Better?: Evolution of the Firm Size Wage Premium"
William E. Even, Miami University
David Macpherson, Florida State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

William M. Rodgers, III, Rutgers University
Anjali Srivastava, Rutgers University
Elizabeth L. Rankin, Centenary College of Louisiana
Dan Becker, University of Virginia

Session Chairs:

Anjali Srivastava, Rutgers University

Papers:

"Education and Empowerment: Evidence from the Choice of Spouse in Vietnam"
Fenohasina Maret, The George Washington University (Contact Author)
M. Shahe Emran, The George Washington University
Stephen C. Smith, The George Washington University

"The Aging Population in India"
Aparna Mitra, University of Oklahoma (Contact Author)

"The Motherhood Wage Gap for First Generation Immigrant and Native Women: Do Motherhood Wage Gaps Vary By United States Nativity?"
Anjali Srivastava, Rutgers University (Contact Author)
William M. Rodgers, III, Rutgers University

Discussants:

Justin May, The College of William and Mary
Paula M. Kazi, Bucknell University
Fenohasina Maret, The George Washington University