Organizers:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Anita Alves Pena, Colorado State University

Papers:

"Taxes, Welfare, and Migration of the American Poor"
Hui-chen Wang, The University of Mississippi (Contact Author)

"Coming to America: Does Home Country's Economic Status Matter for Self-Employment in the U.S.?"
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)
Willie Belton, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Immigrant Homeownership in the U.S. Through Recent Housing Boom and Bust"
Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University (Contact Author)

"FDI, Agglomeration Economies, and Labor Poaching: Evidence from China"
Fariha Kamal, Syracuse University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Catherine S. Norman, Johns Hopkins University
Pia M. Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College
Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Georgia Institute of Technology

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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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Organizers:

Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University

Session Chairs:

Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University

Papers:

"Minimum Wage Effects on Employment, Substitution, and the Teenage Labor Supply: Evidence from Personnel Data"
Laura Giuliano, University of Miami (Contact Author)

"Channels of Labor Market Adjustment: Analysis of the 2007-2009 Federal Minimum Wage Increases"
Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University (Contact Author)
Bruce Kaufman, Georgia State University
Tetyana Zelenska, Georgia State University

"The Dynamic Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment"
Ian Schmutte, The University of Georgia (Contact Author)
R. Kaj Gittings, Louisiana State University

"Minimum Wages and Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities Among Teens"
Scott Adams, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
McKinley L. Blackburn, University of South Carolina (Contact Author)
Chad Cotti, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Discussants:

Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College
R. Kaj Gittings, Louisiana State University
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Melinda Sandler Morrill, North Carolina State University

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