Session Chairs:

Christian Brown, Middle Tennessee State University

Papers:

"English Proficiency and Earnings of Foreign-Born Immigrants in the U.S. from 1980 to 2000 and the Role of Minority-Language Enclaves"
Ying Zhen, Wesleyan College (Contact Author)

"High School Employment and the Economic Assimilation of the Children of Immigrants"
Giuseppe Rionero, Middle Tennessee State University (Contact Author)

"The Effect of Alcohol Use on the Wage Returns to Education"
Jeremy Bray, RTI International
Arnie Aldridge, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Contact Author)
Jesse Hinde, RTI International

"Comparing the Effects of Legal and Illegal Drug Use on Work Absenteeism"
Wesley Austin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Contact Author)
Sarah J. Skinner, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

"On the Evolution of Incarceration-Induced Labor Frictions"
Christian Brown, Middle Tennessee State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Wesley Austin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Ying Zhen, Wesleyan College
Scott D. Drewianka, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Christopher J. Boudreaux, Florida State University
Arnie Aldridge, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Session Chairs:

Kelly Carter, Morgan State University

Papers:

"Funding the Biomedical Workforce: Does Mechanism Matter?"
Dadhi Adhikari, University of New Mexico
Margaret Blume-Kohout, University of New Mexico (Contact Author)

"Good Firms, Worker Flows, and Productivity"
Michel Serafinelli, University of California, Berkeley (Contact Author)

"Testing the Human Capital Versus Signaling Theory of Job Performance"
Kelly Carter, Morgan State University (Contact Author)

"Time Cost and Multinational Firms' Trade in Manufacturing"
Eugene Bempong Nyantakyi, Whitworth University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Margaret Blume-Kohout, University of New Mexico
Masaki Nakabayashi, The University of Tokyo
Sarah J. Skinner, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Firat Demir, The University of Oklahoma

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