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A relatively unexplored question in dynamic labour demand regards the source of adjustment costs, whether they depend on net or gross changes in employment. We estimate a structural model of dynamic labour demand where the firm faces adjustment costs related to gross and net changes in its...
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Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and …
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Using a longitudinal matched employer-employee data set for Portugal over the 1986-2005 period, this study analyzes the …
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countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …
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Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition and with the technology level. This paper...
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employer-employee data for Portugal enable us to account for observable as well as unobservable worker quality. Our results …
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This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...
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while worker and job flows are lower in Portugal, the excess turnover is remarkably close in the two countries. …
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Wage inequality in Portugal increased over the last quarter of century. The period from 1982 to 1995 witnessed strong …
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The lack of formal education and competences of the Portuguese workers is one of the biggest problems of the country. This lack is disappearing as quickly as desired and the young generations still lag far behind those in other OECD countries. This paper studies the intergenerational...
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