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, Portugal's PPPs may not have scored as high as they could have. To some extent, this has been inevitable, given that no well …-tested blueprint to follow was available when Portugal embarked on the PPP route a decade ago. That said, recent changes to Portugal …
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This paper investigates whether a high level of new business formation in a region stimulates employment in that region. The study looks at the lag structure of these effects, using a data set covering a fairly large time span (1982-2002). The indirect supply-side effects of new firm births,...
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We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for workerspecific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random effects, one at the firm level and another at the worker level. This enables us to decompose the...
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Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest …
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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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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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results suggest that fiscal consolidation efforts must, in fact, be continued in Portugal. …
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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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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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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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