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Ageing and the labor market in Japan : problems and policies

Hamada, Kōichi (contributor); Katō, Hiromi (contributor) - 2007

1. Ageing and employment in Japan -- 2. Factors affecting labor force participation in Japan : empirical study of labor …

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Real-time search in the laboratory and the market

Brown, Meta; Flinn, Christopher J.; Schotter, Andrew - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2009

While widely accepted models of labor market search imply a constant reservation wage policy, the empirical evidence strongly suggests that reservation wages decline in the duration of search. This paper reports the results of the first real-time-search laboratory experiment. The controlled...

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Labor supply heterogeneity and macroeconomic comovement

Eusepi, Stefano; Preston, Bruce - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2009

average than the unemployed do. Second, changes in the employment rate, a central factor explaining variation in total hours …

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The paradox of toil

Eggertsson, Gauti - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2010

more. What happens to aggregate employment? This paper shows that, under certain conditions, aggregate employment falls …

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Subsidizing job creation in the Great Recession

Kitao, Sagiri; Sahin, Aysegül; Song, Joseph - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2010

We analyze the effects of various labor market policies on job creation, job destruction, and employment. The framework … consider the equilibrium effects of a hiring subsidy, a payroll tax reduction, and an employment subsidy. While calibrating … parameters that characterize these policies, we try to mimic the policies in the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE …

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Job-finding and separation rates in the OECD

Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegül - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2007

In this paper, we provide a set of comparable estimates of aggregate monthly job-finding and separation rates for twenty-seven OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries; these estimates can be used for the cross-country calibration of search models of unemployment....

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Firms and flexibility

Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegül - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2007

We study the effects of labor market rigidities and frictions on firm-size distributions and dynamics. We introduce a model of endogenous entrepreneurship, labor market frictions, and firm-size dynamics with many types of rigidities, such as hiring and firing costs, search frictions with vacancy...

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Is there still an added-worker effect?

Juhn, Chinhui; Potter, Simon - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2007

exit employment—is still important among a subset of couples, but that the overall value of marriage as a risk …-sharing arrangement has diminished because of the greater positive co-movement of employment within couples. While positive assortative …

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Agglomeration and job matching among college graduates

Abel, Jaison R.; Deitz, Richard - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2012

We study one potential source of urban agglomeration economies: better job matching. Focusing on college graduates, we construct two direct measures of job matching based on how well an individual’s job corresponds to his or her college education. Consistent with matching-based theories of...

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Do informal referrals lead to better matches? Evidence from a firm's employee referral system

Brown, Meta; Setren, Elizabeth; Topa, Giorgio - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2012

The limited nature of data on employment referrals in large business and household surveys has so far impeded our … efforts to understand the relationships among employment referrals, match quality, wage trajectories, and turnover. Using a …

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