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, compared to Portugal's Algarve region …
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process in Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal and, by way of contrast, in Germany, a country that did experience a reform …
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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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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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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 …
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Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and …
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