Session Chairs:

Hsin-Ling Hsieh, Northern Michigan University

Papers:

"I’ll Marry You If You Get Me a Job: Cross-Nativity Marriages and Immigrant Employment Rates"
Delia Furtado, University of Connecticut (Contact Author)
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, University of Cyprus

"Does Marriage Delay Really Pay Off? Exploiting Marriage Market Shocks as a Natural Experiment"
Le Wang, University of New Hampshire (Contact Author)

"Can Marriage Destroy Marriage? Lessons from the Netherlands"
Mircea Trandafir, University of Maryland (Contact Author)

"After School Special: The Wage Effect of Adjusting Work Schedules for After School Childcare"
Daniel Matthew Custance Lawson, Drew University (Contact Author)

"The Effects of National Health Insurance on Elderly Living Arrangements"
Hsin-Ling Hsieh, Northern Michigan University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Sumanta Mukherjee, University of Kansas
Amelie Constant, DIW DC
Stephen Rubb, Sacred Heart University
Hsin-Ling Hsieh, Northern Michigan University

Session Chairs:

Stephen Rubb, Sacred Heart University

Papers:

"Asymmetric Information and the Theory of Heterogeneous Education-Occupation Mismatches"
Stephen Rubb, Sacred Heart University (Contact Author)
Michael A. Quinn, Bentley College

"Skills Mismatch and the Duration of Unemployment in the United States"
Daniel Kuehn, George Washington University (Contact Author)

"Sorting and Matching in Industrial Clusters"
Matthew Freedman, Cornell University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Marios Michaelides, IMPAQ International, LLC
Jeremy Schwartz, The George Washington University
Matthew Freedman, Cornell University