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Firm Entry Deregulation, Competition and Returns to Education and Skill

Fernandes, Ana; Ferreira, Priscila; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

entry in Portugal as a quasi-natural experiment. We use cross-municipality-year variation in the implementation of the …

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Export Destinations and Input Prices

Bastos, Paulo; Silva, Joana; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. We use exchange-rate movements as a source of variation in export …

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Portugal and Europe: The Longest Transition

Braga de Macedo, Jorge - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

two "integration episodes", the development of an economic union between Portugal and its African colonies and the … establishment of democratic socialism since then. The paper contrasts the recent economic experience of Portugal with its neighbour … Spain. The view that EC membership is desirable because it ensures Portugal against dictatorship is also examined and …

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Moving the Escudo into the Euro

Braga de Macedo, Jorge; Catela Nunes, Luís; Covas, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

When the 1987 general elections brought a durable government to Portugal, the national environment was still …

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External Liberalization with Ambiguous Public Response: The Experience of Portugal

Braga de Macedo, Jorge - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

This paper reviews the traditional ambiguity of Portuguese policy towards external liberalization. Product and labour markets have become segmented as a result of the soft budget constraint faced by large corporations and job protection in the public sector. Relaxation of entry requirements into...

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Portuguese Industry and the Effect of EC Membership

Corado, Cristina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

, economies of scale, and have been heavily protected from international competition in Portugal and Spain. The `costs of non …

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Competition Policy in Portugal

Barros, Pedro Luis Pita; Mata, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

economic agents, competition policies are usually included in the legal framework that regulates economic activities. Portugal …

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Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality

Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper considers an economy where skilled and unskilled workers use different technologies. The rate of improvement of each technology is determined by a profit-maximizing R&D sector. When there is a high proportion of skilled workers in the labour-force, the market for skill-complementary...

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The Wage Expectations of European College Students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labour economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and their formation is scarce. In this Paper we report the results of the first systematic study of the...

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Increasing Returns to Education: Theory and Evidence

Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G; Gong, Xiaodong - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We model educational investment and labour supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. Following Rosen (1983), we show that there are private increasing returns to education...

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