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 …