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The lack of human capital in Portugal has become a key obstacle to higher growth. This paper discusses the performance … of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human … of the services that compound the low starting point of Portugal regarding education. Modernizing the Portuguese economy …
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Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others' time. This mechanism increases productivity … and organization of U.S. lawyers and use the equilibrium model of knowledge hierarchies in Garicano and Rossi …
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We study the relationships between corporate R&D and three components of public science: knowledge, human capital, and … established firms, which account for more than three-quarters of business R&D, is affected by scientific knowledge produced by … innovation in firms. However, inventions from universities and public research institutes substitute for corporate inventions and …
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and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …
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often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use administrative data from Portugal, linked to …
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travel for technology sourcing and innovation by examining whether patenting in European regions is affected by the number of … Travelers, we find that controlling for a region's R&D spending and size, innovation is increasing in the number of business …, compared to Portugal's Algarve region …
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This paper considers the effects of Chinese import competition on firm-level labor market outcomes in Portugal. We … examine direct competition in the Portuguese market and indirect competition Portugal's largest export markets in Western … export markets, but minimal effects of direct competition in Portugal. Our findings also suggest a centrally important role …
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We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...
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data from Portugal, a country which implemented one of the most dramatic and thorough policies of entry deregulation in the …
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