Organizers:

Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Papers:

"Do Minimum Wage Laws Affect People Who Are Not Covered? Evidence from Undocumented Piecerate Workers in U.S. Agriculture"
Anita Alves Pena, Colorado State University (Contact Author)

"Undocumented Workers and the U.S. Business Cycle"
J. David Brown, Bureau of the Census
Serife Genc, University of Pittsburgh
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Contact Author)

"Labor Migration, Remittances and Business Cycles"
Federico S. Mandelman, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Contact Author)
Andrei Zlate, Board of Governers of the Federal Reserve System

"Effects of the 1992 Chinese Student Protection Act"
Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College (Contact Author)
Pia M. Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Emily Kerr, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

"Undocumented Migration, Remittances, and Migrant Networks: The Case of Tajikistan"
Olga Shemyakina, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew Hispanic Center
Marie T. Mora, The University of Texas-Pan American
Sue K. Stockly, Eastern New Mexico University
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

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Session Chairs:

Serife Genc, University of Pittsburgh

Papers:

"Human Capital Externalities and Employment Differences across Metropolitan Areas of U.S."
John Winters, Auburn University at Montgomery (Contact Author)

"The Impact of Work-Limiting Disability on Labor Force Participation"
Douglas Webber, Cornell University (Contact Author)
Melissa Bjelland, Cornell University

"The Effect of Outside Income Sources on Households’ Labor Market Behavior"
Andrew Stephenson, Georgia State University (Contact Author)

"Skill Premium in U.S. and Canada"
Serife Genc, University of Pittsburgh (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Andrew Stephenson, Georgia State University
John Winters, Auburn University at Montgomery
Janice Compton, University of Manitoba
Maria Minniti, Southern Methodist University

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Session Chairs:

Maria Minniti, Southern Methodist University

Papers:

"Revisiting Mincer (1974), Chapter 6: An Empirical Examination of Annual Wage Variation"
Laura L Coogan, University of Kentucky (Contact Author)

"Bachelor's Degrees and Business Start-ups: A Reexamination of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship"
Li Yu, Central University of Finance and Economics
Peter F. Orazem, Iowa State University (Contact Author)
Robert Jolly, Iowa State University

"Recreational Activities Among Freshmen and Their Likelihood on Becoming Sophomores"
Godfrey A. Gibbison, Georgia Southern University (Contact Author)
Tracy Henry, Georgia Southern University

"Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Propensity"
Maria Minniti, Southern Methodist University (Contact Author)
Philipp Koellinger, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Christian Schade, Humboldt University of Berlin

Discussants:

Peter F. Orazem, Iowa State University
Laura L Coogan, University of Kentucky
Serife Genc, University of Pittsburgh
Godfrey A. Gibbison, Georgia Southern University

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