Saturday, May 3 / 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM   •   Provincetown

Session 197:
Poverty, Instability, and Mobility

Chair: Peter Gottschalk, Boston College
Discussant: Seth Sanders, Duke University

  1. Racial Disparities in Job Displacement in the United States, 1979-2011Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  2. Understanding Variation in Poverty Rates Using the California Poverty MeasureChristopher T. Wimer, Columbia University ; Sarah Bohn, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) ; Caroline Danielson, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) ; Matt Levin, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) ; Marybeth J. Mattingly, University of New Hampshire

  3. Minimum Wages, Cash Wages, and Poverty: New Evidence from the Great Recession YearsJoseph J. Sabia, San Diego State University ; Richard V. Burkhauser, Cornell University

  4. Earnings Dynamics, Foreign Workers and the Stability of Inequality Trends in Luxembourg, 1988–2009Denisa Sologon, Universiteit Maastricht, CEPS/INSTEAD and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) ; Philippe Van Kerm, CEPS/INSTEAD

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