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In search of excellence - Innovation contests to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in Portugal

Carvalho, Adão - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2009

businesses; an increasing trend in the number of innovation contests launched annually in Portugal; high rates of rotation of the …Numerous initiatives of different nature have taken place in Portugal over the recent years aiming at raising … consciousness of the importance and advantages of innovation and entrepreneurship, persuading businesspeople to place innovation as …

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Measuring Labour Mismatch in Europe

Morgado, António; Sequeira, Tiago Neves; Santos, Marcelo; … - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2014

We calculate aggregate measures of mismatch in the labour market for 30 European countries. These indicators measure vertical mismatch (related to the level of education, e.g. overeducation, and undereducation) and horizontal mismatch (related to the eld of education) and are comparable across...

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International Competitiveness: is the reduction of wages a solution? An evaluation of the Portuguese case

Vaz, Elsa; Fontoura, Maria Paula - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2013

The purpose of this paper is to analyse, for the case of Portugal, the effectiveness of wage reduction - a current …

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Decomposition analysis for energy-related CO2 emissions intensity over 1996-2009 in Portuguese Industrial Sectors

Alves, Margarida R.; Moutinho, Victor - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2013

Is this paper, we used the 'complete decomposition' technique to examine CO2 emissions intensity and its components considering 16 industrial sectors over 1996-2009 period. In addition, we have implemented the forecast error variance decomposition applied to the factors in which emissions...

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A Regional Human Development Index for Portugal

Silva, Rita; Lopes, Alexandra Ferreira - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2012

In a report from 2008 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development came to the conclusion that Portugal is … development index for Portugal at the NUTS III level, based on the methodology of the Human Development Index (HDI) from the …

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Final energy demand in Portugal: How persistent it is and why it matters for environmental policy

Pereira, Alfredo Marvão; Belbute, José Manuel - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2011

The objective of this paper is to analyze the degree of persistence of final energy demand in Portugal. Our results … fact that final energy demand is highly persistent is good news in that environmental policies in Portugal can be …

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Comparative Analysis of Regional Input-Output Matrices: the Portuguese case

Vaz, Elsa; Belbute, José; Caleiro, António; … - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2012

Portugal is a heterogeneous territory even though it is a small country. Each region has different characteristics …-output (IO) tables for Portugal. The North, Centre and the Algarve IO tables display a similar structure, while the Azores IO …

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Structural Breaks and Volatility of Gross Domestic Product: Evidence for Portugal

Andraz, Jorge; Norte, Nélia - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2012

This paper presents an empirical analysis of volatility in GDP real growth rates for Portugal over the period 1960 …-2010. The objectives of this paper are threefold: (1) to assess the occurrence of “the Great Moderation” in Portugal and … reveal a progressive “moderation” in Portugal, characterized by two regime changes in both growth rates and volatility. The …

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Consumer Confidence in Portugal - What does it really matter?

Caleiro, Antonio; Ramalho, Esmeralda; Dionísio, Andreia - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2009

. Instead, the objective of our paper is to analyse the evolution of consumer confidence in Portugal and examine which factors …

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Health Care and Health Outcomes of Migrants: Evidence from Portugal

Barros, Pedro Pita; Pereira, Isabel Medalho - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2010

This paper studies the performance of immigrants relative to natives, in terms of their health status, use of health care services, lifestyles, and coverage of health expenditures. We base the analysis on international evidence that identified a healthy immigrant effect, complemented by...

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