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Portugal, it is shown that even when controlling for potential endogenous factors associated to attendance and academic …
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The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...
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Most opportunistic-type models of political business cycles tend to posit a given objective for incumbents: maximisation of re-election chances. Though taking an opportunistic view too, we suggest a new explanation for a fiscal policy cycle: the incumbent’s concern with her own welfare in...
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European housing systems - Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece Œ under the assumption that they had a different path other than …
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combined industry and occupation-based approach for estimating the scale of creative employment in Portugal. Using micro data … Portugal amounts to 6.9% of total employment (i.e., 215525 workers), with the most important creative sectors being …
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Regarding states and state-like entities as producers and taxation as a price, this paper connects the thoroughly studied impacts of the market structures in microeconomics to the controversial Laffer curve, suggesting that the outcome of the “taxation market” depends also on competition. By...
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Portugal, and to analyze its evolution over the period between 1977 and 2011. For the econometric analysis we used the … the share of the Shadow Economy in Portugal, during the period under review, had a sharp decrease between 1997 and 2000 …
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Although the analysis of the relationship between international trade and economic growth has an important tradition in the economic literature, the specific focus on a related matter, the link between export variety and economic growth, remains a relatively unexplored field of research....
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) knowledge-sourcing activities (systematic R&D achievements, innovation-based training, purchase of machinery and equipment for …The acknowledged importance of innovation and the increasingly decisive role played by the service sector make … innovation an issue of major relevance to the economy. Using a sample of 6593 companies that answered the Community Innovation …
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Direct Investment. So, the main purpose of this paper is to discuss the positioning of Portugal – a small open economy in the …, this hypothesis is estimated empirically for Portugal and other 24 countries in different stages of development, between …
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