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:

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