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What hides behind an unemployment rate : comparing Portuguese and U.S. unemployment

Blanchard, Olivier; Portugal, Pedro - 1998

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Disentangling the minimum wage puzzle : an analysis of worker accessions and separations

Portugal, Pedro; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2002

Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for analysis of the employment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412421

Disentangling the minimum wage puzzle : an analysis of worker accessions and separations from a longitudinal matched employer-employee data set

Portugal, Pedro; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2002

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Employment dynamics and the structure of labor adjustment costs

Varejão, José M.; Portugal, Pedro - 2003

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Matching workers to jobs in the fast lane : the operation of fixed-term contracts

Varejão, José M.; Portugal, Pedro - 2004

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Workers' flow and real wage cyclicality

Carneiro, Anabela; Portugal, Pedro - 2004

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Workers' flows and real wage cyclicality

Carneiro, Anabela (contributor); Portugal, Pedro (contributor) - 2007

"This study investigates real wage cyclicality in Portugal for the years of 1986-98, addressing the heterogeneity in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003449491

Employment dynamics and the structure of labor adjustment costs

Varejão, José M. (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper we document the patterns of employment adjustment at the micro-level. We find clear evidence of lumpy adjustment consistent with the presence of non-convexities in the adjustment technology - inaction is pervasive, action spells are short-lived, extreme adjustment episodes occur...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253460

Increasing the legal retirement age : the impact on wages, worker flows and firm performance

Martins, Pedro S.; Novo, Álvaro A.; Portugal, Pedro - 2009

reform introduced in Portugal in 1994: women's LRA was gradually increased from 62 to 65 years while men's LRA stayed …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847144

What Hides Behind an Umemployment Rate : Comparing Portuguese and U.S. Unemployment

Blanchard, Olivier - 1998

Over the last 15 years, Portugal and the United States have had the same average unemployment rate, about 6.5%. But … behind these similar rates hide two very different labor markets. Unemployment duration in Portugal is more than three times … that of the United States. Symmetrically, the flow of workers into unemployment in Portugal is, in proportion to the labor …

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