Session Chairs:

Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Papers:

"Demographic Contributions to Inequality: Decomposition Analyses by Income Source from 1969 to 2006"
Gulgun Bayaz, University of Connecticut
Richard V. Burkhauser, Cornell University
Kenneth A. Couch, University of Connecticut (Contact Author)

"Education and the Distribution of Wages: A Semiparametric Approach"
Judy Yang, Georgetown University (Contact Author)

"Measuring the Impact of College Cost Shocks on Parents' Labor Supply"
Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Contact Author)
Emily Pas Isenberg, U.S. Census Bureau

"Wage Traps as Poverty and Distribution Traps in Neoclassical and Endogenous Growth Models"
Manfred Gaertner, University of St. Gallen (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Fenohasina Maret, The George Washington University
Robert M. Schmidt, University of Richmond
David S. Johnson, U.S. Census Bureau
Ekaterina Niman, University of Guelph

Session Chairs:

Sharon H. Mastracci, University of Illinois at Chicago

Papers:

"Determinants of State Minimum Wage Laws: A Bayesian Spatial Probit Approach"
Donald J. Lacombe, Ohio University
Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Ohio University (Contact Author)

"Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey"
Meltem Daysal, University of Maryland, College Park (Contact Author)
Carmen Pages, Inter-American Development Bank
Gordon Betcherman, The World Bank

"Effects of State Minimum Wage Increases on Employment, Hours, and Earnings of Low-Wage Workers: Evidence from Illinois"
Sharon H. Mastracci, University of Illinois at Chicago (Contact Author)
Joseph Persky, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Juvenile Delinquency, Justice System Involvement, and High School Dropout"
Leonidas Murembya, Baker College (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Wei Kang, Middle Tennessee State University
Matthew Freedman, Cornell University
Judy Yang, Georgetown University
Linda Loubert, Morgan State University