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Individual teacher incentives, student achievement and grade inflation
Martins, Pedro Silva - 2009
recent introduction of teacher performance-related pay and tournaments in Portugal's public schools. Specifically, we draw on …
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Exports, imports and wages: evidence from matched firm-worker-product panels
Martins, Pedro Silva; Opromolla, Luca David - 2009
-) technology products tend to increase their salaries. Our analysis is based on unique data from Portugal, obtained by merging a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275836
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Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe
Matsaganis, Manos; Levy, Horacio; Mercader-Prats, Magda; … - 2005
and Portugal. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper first assesses the distributional impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276087
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How working time reduction affects employment and earnings
Raposo, Pedro S.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2008
December 1, 1996 Portugal introduced a new law on working hours which gradually reduced the standard workweek from 44 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276105
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Alternative basic income mechanisms: an evaluation exercise with a microeconometric model
Colombino, Ugo; Locatelli, Marilena; Narazani, Edlira; … - 2010
of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom. We then simulate … in Italy and Portugal universal policies appear to be too costly in terms of implied top marginal tax rates and in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276112
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment: is Portugal an Outlier?
Baptista, Rui; Thurik, A. Roy - 2004
ownership rates, and unemployment in Portugal in the period from 1972-2002. It concludes that Portugal has been a relative … discrepancies. The differences between observed levels of unemployment for Portugal and those predicted by a model based on OECD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276803
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Rhineland exit?
Bovenberg, Lans; Teulings, Coen N. - 2008
their outside option. Empirical results for Denmark, Portugal and the United States show that Denmark is closest to the … first-best outcome, while Portugal and the United States deviate in different ways. Coordination in wage bargaining and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276828
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Rhineland exit?
Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Teulings, Coen N. - 2008
We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between stakeholders can easily evolve in a permanent struggle between the stakeholders about the ultimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276859
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Measuring what employers really do about entry wages over the business cycle
Martins, Pedro Silva; Solon, Gary; Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276863
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Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling
Hartog, Joop; Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Vieira, José … - 1999
This paper examines the size of inter-industry wage dispersion in Portugal and compares with other countries. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276952