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Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper provides the first definitive estimates of union density in Portugal, 2010-2012, using a unique dataset. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214034
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Comparing the Productive Efficiency of Cooperatives and Private Enterprises: The Portuguese Wine Industry as a Case Study
Barros, Carlos Pestana; Santos, J.C. Gomes - In: Journal of Rural Cooperation 35 (2007) 2
This paper compares the efficiency of cooperatives and private enterprises in the Portuguese wine industry, employing data envelopment analysis (DEA). The use of DEA for the analysis of comparative efficiency within a sector is a key tool in evaluating organizational competitiveness....
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Six ways to leave unemployment
Portugal, Pedro; Addison, John T. - 2003
This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit receipt and maximum duration of benefits on escape rates from unemployment. The focus is on the time profile of transitions out of unemployment. The novel aspect of the study resides in its identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261650
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Job Search Methods and Outcomes
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001
Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and of job-finding methods on earnings. The effectiveness of the job search process is also evaluated in terms of the periodicity of the resulting job match. Emphasis is accorded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262557
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Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001
This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a polynomial hazard function to test for the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262558
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Employment Adjustment in Portugal: Evidence from Aggregate and Firm Data
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2001
This paper examines the pattern of employment adjustment in Portugal. First, the issue is addressed using a long time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262595
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How do different entitlements to unemployment benefits affect the transitions from unemployment into employment?
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2007
In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are to all intents and purposes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268506
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Job Search Methods and Outcomes
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 1998
In this paper we investigate the process of job search, using a unique, large-scale data set for Portugal that allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297600
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Is Portugal really so arteriosclerotic? Results from a cross-country analysis of labor adjustment
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 1999
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297630
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Measuring performance in defense-sector companies in a small NATO member country
Barros, Carlos Pestana - In: Journal of Economic Studies 31 (2004) May, pp. 112-128
In all European national defense-sector industries, organizational efficiency forms a vital component of the operations that improves competitiveness in the market. The Portuguese government subsidizes companies that are active in this sector in its mission for the companies to achieve improved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964071