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:

Jennifer Brown, Eastern Connecticut State University

Papers:

"No Country for Old Men (and Women): Do State Taxes Drive Away the Elderly?"
Karen Smith Conway, University of New Hampshire (Contact Author)
Jonathan Rork, Georgia State University

"The Effect of Coal Mines on Residential Property Values"
Arzu Sen, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

"Elected Versus Appointed County Commission Executives: Political Favors, Unions, and Support Facilities"
Gary Hoover, University of Alabama (Contact Author)

"The Distributional Impacts of Climate Change: Effects from Geographic Variation"
Jennifer Brown, Eastern Connecticut State University (Contact Author)
Fred Loxsom, Eastern Connecticut State University
Mary Curran, Eastern Connecticut State University

Discussants:

P. Benjamin Chou, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Michael D. Stroup, Stephen F. Austin State University
John Hill, Hardin-Simmons University
Gonzalo Caballero, University of Vigo

Session Chairs:

Mette Verner, University of Aarhus

Papers:

"Gender Differences in Income Inequality Among Immigrant Populations to the United States"
Mehmet Erdem Yaya, University of Alabama (Contact Author)
Gary Hoover, University of Alabama

"Gender, Unemployment and Underemployment in South Africa Reexamined: What Time-use Data Reveals"
Maria Floro, American University
Imraan Valodia, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Hitomi Komatsu, American University (Contact Author)

"Gender Differences in Rank Within the Academic Profession: The Case of Denmark"
Mette Verner, University of Aarhus (Contact Author)

"Human Capital Augmentation Versus the Signaling Value of MBA Education"
Andrew Hussey, University of Memphis (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Yan Li, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Hitomi Komatsu, American University
Andrew Hussey, University of Memphis
Mehmet Erdem Yaya, University of Alabama