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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

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(How) Do Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Adolescent School Achievement? Experimental Evidence

Martins, Pedro S. - 2017

Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....

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Minu, Startu and All that : Pitfalls in Estimating the Sensitivity of a Worker's Wage to Aggregate Unemployment

Martins, Pedro S. - 2011

In this paper we show that panel estimates of tenure specific sensitivity to the business cycle of wages is subject to serious pitfalls. Three canonical variates used in the literature – the minimum unemployment rate during a worker's time at the firm (min u), the unemployment rate at the...

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Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing Across 47 Countries

Martins, Pedro S. - 2010

We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries. We find considerable...

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Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? Evidence from Matched Panel Data

Martins, Pedro S. - 2012

Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives' employment in Portugal. Using different model specifications, we show that the natives and immigrants are 'complements' at most occupation levels, in the sense that they are jointly hired and fired. Controlling...

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Exports, Imports and Wages : Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker-Product Panels

Martins, Pedro S. - 2009

The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...

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Heterogeneity in Real Wage Cyclicality

Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

This paper presents evidence that real wage cyclicality can be a particularly heterogeneous parameter, depending on different worker characteristics and also on the specific stage of the business cycle. Using matched employer-employee panel data for Portugal covering the period 1986-2004, real...

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Bias in Returns to Tenure When Firm Wages and Employment Comove : A Quantitative Assessment and Solution

Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

identified. We argue that if a reduced form estimation of RTT is undertaken, firm-year fixed effects must be added in order to …

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Employment Effects of Restricting Fixed-Term Contracts : Theory and Evidence

Cahuc, Pierre; Carry, Pauline; Malherbet, Franck; … - 2022

This paper examines a labor law reform implemented in Portugal in 2009 which restricted the use of fixed-term contracts to reduce labor market segmentation. The reform targeted establishments created by large firms above a specific size threshold, covering about 15% of total employment. Drawing...

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