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Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

While trade unions have been studied in detail, there is virtually no economics research on employer associations (EAs), their counterparts in many countries. Here we argue that EAs are important economic agents as they provide sectoral public goods such as collective bargaining, training, and...

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

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

Many pay-as-you-go pension systems have increased or plan to increase their legal retirement age (LRA) to address the financial consequences of ageing. Although the success of these policies is ultimately determined at the labour market, little is known about the effects of higher LRAs at the...

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

Martins, Pedro S. (contributor) - 2007

This paper provides evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, a specific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attention despite its potential relevance. We study a quasi-natural experiment generated by a law introduced in Portugal in...

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Employee training and firm performance: evidence from ESF grant applications

Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

As work changes more quickly, firm-provided training may become more relevant. However, there is little causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training grants programme in Portugal, supported by the European Social Fund, contrasting firms that received...

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The diversity of personnel practices and firm performance

Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

Personnel economics tends be based on single-firm case studies. Here we examine the personnel practices of nearly 5,000 firms, over a period of 20 years, using detailed matched employer-employee panel data from Portugal. In the spirit of Baker et al. (1994a,b), we consider different dimensions...

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Do foreign-owned firms provide better working conditions than their domestic counterparts? : a comparative analysis

Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S.; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2010

This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...

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Foreign ownership, employment and wages in Brazil : evidence from acquisitions, divestments and job movers

Martins, Pedro S. (contributor); … - 2008

How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we...

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Do foreign firms really pay higher wages? : Evidence from different estimators

Martins, Pedro S. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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Rent sharing in China : magnitude, heterogeneity and drivers

Duan, Wenjing; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019

Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering … importance, RS in China is smaller and more symmetric than in developed economies, which reflects the weaker bargaining power of …

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Collateral damage? : labour market effects of competing with China - at home and abroad

Cabral, Sónia; Martins, Pedro S.; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2018

The increased range and quality of China's exports is a major ongoing development in the international economy with … potentially far-reaching effects. In this paper, on top of the direct effects of increased imports from China studied in previous … and employment are significantly negatively affected by China's competition, but only through the indirect 'market …

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