Session Chairs:

Sean E. Mulholland, Stonehill College

Papers:

"The Political Economy of State-Level Immigrant Policy"
Qinping Feng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Contact Author)

"Motivation Is My Human Capital: 21st Century Immigration into the US"
Fahad Gill, Middle Tennessee State University (Contact Author)

"Family or Work: Preference-Based Immigration and City Growth"
Jason J. Delaney, Georgia Gwinnett College (Contact Author)

"Under the Table and Dreaming: The Migratory Response of Immigrants and Natives to Differences in State Minimum Wages"
Sean E. Mulholland, Stonehill College (Contact Author)
Kristen Veit, Stonehill College

"Location Preferences of Retirees"
Ryan Mickey, Georgia State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Jillian Beaugez Carr, Texas A&M University
Hal Martin, Georgia State University
Wesley Routon, Georgia Gwinnett College
Ryan Mickey, Georgia State University
Qinping Feng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Session Chairs:

Penelope B. Prime, Georgia State University

Papers:

"Productivity Gains from Geographic Concentration of Human Capital: Is Specialization or Diversity More Important?"
Robert R. Reed, III, The University of Alabama (Contact Author)
Christopher Cunningham, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Michaela Patton, The University of Alabama

"Exploring Wage Determination by Education Level: A U.S. MSA Analysis for 2005-2011"
Penelope B. Prime, Georgia State University (Contact Author)
Donald R. Grimes, University of Michigan

"Noisy Little ZIP Codes: The Role of Population Size in Community Level Measures"
Kylie Jaber, Saginaw Valley State University (Contact Author)
Kaustav Misra, Saginaw Valley State University

Discussants:

Kylie Jaber, Saginaw Valley State University
Brandon Tilley, University of West Georgia
Fahad Gill, Middle Tennessee State University
Dimitrios Nikolaou, Illinois State University

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