market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency …' institutional detail on the nature of employment protection in Portugal; and, second, and more substantively, by offering a detailed … analysis of the process of labor djustment in Portugal, benchmarked to other-country experience. The latter exercise - based on …

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …

these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal …

cooperate with foreign partners than non-exporters, whereas in Portugal this is not the case. …