Session Chairs:

Peter R. Mueser, University of Missouri

Papers:

"Earnings of Displaced Workers and the Business Cycle: An Analysis Using Administrative Data"
Kenneth A. Couch, University of Connecticut (Contact Author)
Nicholas Jolly, University of Connecticut
Dana Placzek, State of Connecticut

"Unemployment and the Business Cycle: How Should Unemployment Insurance Adjust?"
Jeremy Schwartz, The George Washington University (Contact Author)

"Tradeoffs Between Wages and Other Job Characteristics with an Application to Unemployment Insurance"
Dan Becker, University of Virginia (Contact Author)

"Women and Unemployment in the New Economy: The Interaction of Gender, Occupation and Industry"
Marios Michaelides, IMPAQ International, LLC
Peter R. Mueser, University of Missouri (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Mette Verner, University of Aarhus
Guenther Fink, Harvard School of Public Health
Dan Becker, University of Virginia
Kenneth A. Couch, University of Connecticut

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:

Michael Bonnal, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Papers:

"The Competitive Effects of a New Product: The Case of Crystal Pepsi"
Wei Xiao, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics (Contact Author)

"Non-Wage Job Characteristics: The Missing Margin In Job Choice and Unemployment Insurance Program Evaluation"
Dan Becker, University of Virginia (Contact Author)

"Multinationals and the Shutdown of State-Owned Firms"
Grzegorz Pac, University of Colorado at Boulder (Contact Author)

"Bank Runs and Monetary Arrangements: A Computational Examination"
Pedro Romero Aleman, George Mason University (Contact Author)

"Unintended Effects of Environmental Regulation"
Esteban Afonso, University of Georgia (Contact Author)

"Do Teachers’ Unions Really Affect Teacher Attrition?: A Potential Outcomes Bayesian Analysis"
Gregory Gilpin, Indiana University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Benjamin D. Keen, University of Oklahoma
M. Northrup Buechner, St. John's University
Erik Strojer Madsen, University of Aarhus
David M. Kemme, University of Memphis
Vange Mariet Ocasio, Colorado State University
David E.R. Gay, University of Arkansas