Labor Studies.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meeting

Members of the NBER's Labor Studies Program met February 22 in San Francisco. Program Directors David Autor of MIT and Alexandre Mas of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Conrad Miller, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; Jennifer Peck, Swarthmore College; and Mehmet Seflek, University of California, Berkeley, "Big Push Policies and Firm-Level Barriers to Employing Women: Evidence from Saudi Arabia"

* Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau, "Immigrants' Earnings Growth and Return Migration from the U.S.: Examining Their Determinants Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data"

* Francois Gerard, Columbia University and NBER; Lorenzo Lagos, Columbia University; Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University; and David Card, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Firm Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil"

* Shai Bernstein and Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER, and Timothy McQuade and Beatriz Pousada, Stanford...