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Southern enlargement of the European Union and capital account liberalization: Lessons for Central and Eastern Europe

Buch, Claudia M.; Heinrich, Ralph P.; Piazolo, Daniel - 1998

The integration of the central and eastern European countries into the international capital markets has been and will be determined by the process of European Union (EU) integration. Our analysis shows that southern and eastern European countries already appear to be surprisingly similar...

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The experience of the Mediterranean countries with accession to the European Communities: Lessons for Poland

Misala, Józef - 1992

Greece has applied for membership in the European Communities on June 13, 1975, Portugal on March 28, 1977, and Spain … January 1, 1981, while Portugal and Spain have become the eleventh and twelth member since January 1, 1986. However, the … routes of these countries to the EC were much longer. The aim of the study is to overview the experience of Greece, Portugal …

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Sustainability of Portuguese fiscal policy in historical perspective

Marinheiro, Carlos Jose Fonseca - 2005

results suggest that fiscal consolidation efforts must, in fact, be continued in Portugal. …

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Rent Sharing Before and After the Wage Bill

Martins, Pedro Silva - 2004

Many biases plague the estimation of rent sharing in labour markets. Using a Portuguese matched employer-employee panel, these biases are addressed in this paper in three complementary ways: 1) Controlling directly for the fact that firms that share more rents will, ceteris paribus, have lower...

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Firm-Level Social Returns to Education

Martins, Pedro Silva - 2004

Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may transfer part of their general skills to uneducated workers and that this spillover is affected by the degrees of...

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Do Foreign Firms Really Pay Higher Wages? : Evidence from Different Estimators

Martins, Pedro Silva - 2004

We contribute to the literature on Foreign Direct Investment and labour markets by examining wage differentials between domestic and foreign firms, drawing on a large Portuguese matched employer-employee panel. Using OLS, the foreign-firm premium is large and significantly positive but falls...

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Heterogeneity in real wage cyclicality

Martins, Pedro Silva - 2007

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

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Dismissals for cause: the difference that just eight paragraphs can make

Martins, Pedro Silva - 2007

generated by a law introduced in Portugal in 1989: out of the 12 paragraphs in the law that dictated the costly procedure …

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Paying more to hire the best? Foreign firms, wages and worker mobility

Martins, Pedro Silva - 2008

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

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Increasing the legal retirement age: the impact on wages, worker flows and firm performance

Martins, Pedro Silva; Novo, Álvaro A.; Portugal, Pedro - 2009

reform introduced in Portugal in 1994: women's LRA was gradually increased from 62 to 65 years while men's LRA stayed …

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