Session Chairs:

Timothy Yang Bian, Georgetown University

Papers:

"The EITC and Hours Worked: New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design"
Margaret Jones, Cornell University (Contact Author)

"Towards a More Comprehensive Measure of Labor Underutilization: Underemployment in Alabama"
Michael Bonnal, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Contact Author)
Samuel Addy, The University of Alabama
Cristina Lira, The University of Alabama

"Determinants of Volunteer Work in Turkey"
Arzu Sen, Zirve University (Contact Author)
David Christafore, Konkuk University

"Understanding Labor Supply Responses in the Great Recession: An Analysis with the 2009 Panel of the Survey of Consumer Finances"
Jesse Bricker, Federal Reserve Board (Contact Author)
Kevin B. Moore, Federal Reserve Board
Jeffrey Thompson, University of Massachusetts

"Sectoral Shocks, Mismatch and Monetary Policy"
Timothy Yang Bian, Georgetown University (Contact Author)
Pedro Gete, Georgetown University

Discussants:

Jesse Bricker, Federal Reserve Board
Arzu Sen, Zirve University
Michael Bonnal, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Margaret Jones, Cornell University
Reshmi Sengupta, Northern Illinois University

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Session Chairs:

Michael Bonnal, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Papers:

"Jobless Recovery"
James P. DeNicco, Drexel University (Contact Author)

"Legal Largesse or Big, Fat Failure: Do Weight-Based Discrimination Laws Improve Employment Outcomes for the Obese?"
Jennifer Bennett Shinall, Vanderbilt University (Contact Author)

"Are Social Networks Compliments or Substitutes? The Case of Immigrant Economic Assimilation?"
Jingjing Ye, Southern Methodist University (Contact Author)

"A Quasi-Experimental Approach to Estimating the Value of Reducing Risk"
Jonathan Lee, North Carolina State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Lester A. Zeager, East Carolina University
Douglas A. Fox, ERS Group
Anna Nesterenko, ERS Group
Michael Bonnal, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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