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Reducing gasoline consumption : three policy options

Dinan, Terry M. (contributor); Austin, David H. (contributor) - 2002

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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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