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Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle : An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations

Portugal, Pedro; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2021

Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for analysis of the employment …

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Unemployment Duration : Competing and Defective Risks

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2021

states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a …

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Job Search Methods and Outcomes

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2021

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...

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Boom, slump, sudden stops, recovery, and policy options : Portugal and the euro

Blanchard, Olivier; Portugal, Pedro - 2017

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Real wages and the business cycle : accounting for worker and firm heterogeneity

Carneiro, Anabela; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2009

Using a longitudinal matched employer-employee data set for Portugal over the 1986-2005 period, this study analyzes the …

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Going after the addiction, not the addicted : the impact of drug decriminalization in Portugal

Félix, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro; Tavares, Ana - 2017

This paper investigates the impact of drug decriminalization in Portugal using the Synthetic Control Method. The … of similar European countries. The results suggest that a policy change implemented in Portugal contributed to a decrease …

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The sources of the union wage gap : the role of worker, firm, match, and jobtitle heterogeneity

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Vilares, Hugo - 2018

Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal - a country with near-universal union coverage - we find …

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Boom, slump, sudden stops, recovery, and policy options : Portugal and the Euro

Blanchard, Olivier; Portugal, Pedro - 2017

Over the past 20 years, Portugal has gone through a boom, a slump, a sudden stop, and now a timid recovery …

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Boom, slump, sudden stops, recovery, and policy options : Portugal and the euro

Blanchard, Olivier; Portugal, Pedro - 2017

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What Hides Behind an Umemployment Rate : Comparing Portuguese and U.S. Unemployment

Blanchard, Olivier - 1998

Over the last 15 years, Portugal and the United States have had the same average unemployment rate, about 6.5%. But … behind these similar rates hide two very different labor markets. Unemployment duration in Portugal is more than three times … that of the United States. Symmetrically, the flow of workers into unemployment in Portugal is, in proportion to the labor …

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