- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

recent introduction of teacher performance-related pay and tournaments in Portugal's public schools. Specifically, we draw on …

performance. We compare two countries with seemingly similar collective bargaining systems, the Netherlands and Portugal, and …

. This paper analyses the causal impact of such extensions on employment using a natural experiment in Portugal: the …

jobs. We illustrate the methodology by applying it to data from an annual census of employers in Portugal over the period … 1982-2007. We find that real entry wages in Portugal over this period tend to be about 1.8 percent higher when the …

identify the wage differences between foreign and domestic firms. Using matched employer-employee panel data for Portugal, we …

data for Portugal covering the period 1986-2004, real wages are shown to be considerably more procyclical during recessions …

employers' associations when we use more detailed, firm population data for Portugal. We conclude that higher affiliation …

Germany and 2.34% in Portugal. While not affecting this probability in Italy and Spain, labour market concentration … security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and … Spain in the 2010s to provide the first comparable cross-country evidence in the literature. Controlling for productivity …