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

Organizers:

Jay Stewart, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Session Chairs:

Jay Stewart, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Papers:

"What Are Establishment Fixed Effects?"
Matthew Dey, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jay Stewart, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Contact Author)

"Manufacturers' Use of Employment Services"
Matthew Dey, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Susan Houseman, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Anne Polivka, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

"A Discussion of the Challenges of Matching FDI and Trade in Services Data from BEA with BLS Data on Employment Patterns"
Mina Kim, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Discussants:

Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University
Brian Bucks, Federal Reserve Board
John McLaren, University of Virginia

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