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Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2008

Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and …

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Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000

Boeheim, Rene - 2007

THS. Linked employer-employee data for Portugal enable us to account for observable as well as unobservable worker quality …

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Wage Flexibility Under Sectoral Bargaining

Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use administrative data from Portugal, linked to …

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Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap : Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women

Card, David - 2015

-fifth of the cross-sectional gender wage gap in Portugal …

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Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal

Card, David - 2011

Although military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. We provide new evidence on the long-term effects of peacetime conscription, using longitudinal data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were...

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Firms and Labor Market Inequality : Evidence and Some Theory

Card, David - 2016

We survey two growing bodies of research on firm-level drivers of labor market inequality. The first examines how wages are affected by differences in employer productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control for the non-random sorting of workers to firms...

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Does Venture Capital Spur Innovation?

Kortum, Samuel - 1998

While policymakers often assume venture capital has a profound impact on innovation, that premise has not been … measures of innovation are used in a sample of 530 venture-backed and non-venture-backed firms …

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Corruption, Government Subsidies, and Innovation : Evidence from China

Fang, Lily - 2018

Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital … for innovation programs strengthened the relationship between firms' historical innovative efficiency and subsequent … changes: subsidies became significantly positively associated with future innovation after the anti-corruption campaign and …

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Venture Capital’s Role in Financing Innovation : What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn

Lerner, Josh - 2020

Venture capital is associated with some of the most high-growth and influential firms in the world. Academics and practitioners have effectively articulated the strengths of the venture model. At the same time, venture capital financing also has real limitations in its ability to advance...

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Financial Distancing : How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation

Howell, Sabrina T. - 2020

questions about the pro-cyclicality of VC and its implications for innovation, especially in light of the common narrative that … VC is relatively insulated from public markets. We find that the implications for innovation are not benign: innovation … discussion on the nature of innovation across business cycles …

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