that double majors are more likely to work in jobs that require a diverse set of skills and knowledge and are less likely …

jobs. We illustrate the methodology by applying it to data from an annual census of employers in Portugal over the period … 1982-2007. We find that real entry wages in Portugal over this period tend to be about 1.8 percent higher when the …

2007. It describes the main facts of Portugal's recent economic history, evaluates some possible explanations for its … firms. This explanation can also potentially account for the similarities and the differences between Portugal on the one … hand, and Ireland and Spain on the other, during this period, and for some features of the crash in Portugal after 2010 …

Because positive spillovers give investment in innovation a social rate of return several times higher than its … internal rate of return to innovators, innovation is chronically underfunded. Recurrent manias, panics and crashes in stock … innovation, competition at the economy-level may favor institutions and behavioral norms conducive to innovation-related bubbles …