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Usage-Based Pricing and Demand for Residential Broadband
Nevo, Aviv - 2015
We estimate demand for residential broadband using high-frequency data from subscribers facing a three-part tariff. The three-part tariff makes data usage during the billing cycle a dynamic problem; thus, generating variation in the (shadow) price of usage. We provide evidence that subscribers...
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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510573
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International Business Travel and Technology Sourcing
Hovhannisyan, Nune - 2019
, compared to Portugal's Algarve region …
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The China Shock and Employment in Portuguese Firms
Branstetter, Lee G. - 2019
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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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
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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COVID-19 and SMEs : A 2021 "Time Bomb"?
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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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Do Entry Regulations Deter Entrepreneurship and Job Creation? Evidence from Recent Reforms in Portugal
Branstetter, Lee G. - 2010
data from Portugal, a country which implemented one of the most dramatic and thorough policies of entry deregulation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462184
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Measuring What Employers Really Do about Entry Wages over the Business Cycle
Martins, Pedro S. - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462888
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The Timing of Labor Demand
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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