Organizers:

Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Papers:

"Assessing the Impacts of the Entrepreneurial Pipeline in U.S. Counties: Jobs and Income"
Timothy M. Komarek, Michigan State University
Scott Loveridge, Michigan State University

"Access to Capital and Spatial Variation of Microenterprises in the Rural United States"
Anil Rupasingha, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Contact Author)

"Minority-Owned Small Businesses’ Access to Finance"
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Alan Barefield, Mississippi State University
R. Andrew Luccasen, III, Mississippi University for Women
Ian M. Schmutte, The University of Georgia

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Organizers:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Papers:

"Unemployment and Health Behaviors over the Business Cycle: Longitudinal Evidence"
Greg Colman, Pace University
Dhaval M. Dave, Bentley University (Contact Author)

"When It Rains It Pours: Under What Circumstances Does Job Loss Lead to Divorce"
Melissa Ruby Banzhaf, U.S. Census Bureau

"Multiple Job Holding, Local Labor Markets, and the Business Cycle"
Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University
Muhammad M. Husain, Georgia State University

"Wherefore Laborforce Nonparticipants: Shifts in Nonparticipant Reasons During the 2008 Recession"
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
M. Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Fernando Rios-Avila, Georgia State University

Discussants:

R. Kaj Gittings, Louisiana State University
Laura M. Argys, University of Colorado Denver
Susan L. Averett, Lafayette College
Susan Chen, University of Alabama

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Organizers:

Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

M. Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Papers:

"The Wage Impact of Undocumented Workers"
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Contact Author)
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Fernando Rios-Avila, Georgia State University

"Immigrant Employment Through the Great Recession: Individual Characteristics and Metropolitan Contexts"
Cathy Yang Liu, Public Management and Policy
Jason T. Edwards, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

"Did Operation Streamline Slow Illegal Immigration?"
Jesus Canas, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Pia M. Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Contact Author)
Christina Daly, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

"The Impacts of the Great Recession on Undocumented Agricultural Labor"
Maoyong Fan, Ball State University
Anita Alves Pena, Colorado State University

Discussants:

Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University, Newark
Cynthia A. Bansak, St. Lawrence University
Sandra Orozco-Aleman, Mississippi State University

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