market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency …' institutional detail on the nature of employment protection in Portugal; and, second, and more substantively, by offering a detailed … analysis of the process of labor djustment in Portugal, benchmarked to other-country experience. The latter exercise based on a …

the European Union (EU). For this purpose we use linked applied general equilibrium models (AGE) for eleven EU member …, employment and inflation in member countries, and the cost and benefits of a cooperative approach to adhere to a EU target of … quantify the economic impact for the, EU by introducing a EU-wide tradable permit system, free of charge and based on the …