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Game of zones : the political economy of conservation areas

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Möller, Kristoffer; Waights, Sevrin - 2014 - Version: April 2014

Provided there are positive external benefits attached to the historic character of buildings, owners of properties in designated conservation areas benefit from a reduction in uncertainty regarding the future of their area. At the same time, the restrictions put in place to ensure the...

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Attention economies

Falkinger, Josef - 2003

Attracting attention is a basic feature of economic life but no standard economic problem. A new theoretical model is developed which describes the general structure of competition for attention and characterizes equilibria. The exogenous fundamentals of an attention economy are the space of...

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Returns to tenure or seniority?

Buhai, Sebastian; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N.; … - 2008

This study documents two empirical regularities, using data for Denmark and Portugal. First, workers who are hired last …

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Taxation of pensions in Portugal : is there a rationale for a semi-dual income tax system?

Bravo, Jorge Miguel Ventura - 2016

The semi-dual income tax typically combines a progressive tax schedule for labour and pension income with low and often flat and differentiated nominal tax rates on some forms of capital income. This paper discusses the rationale for the adoption of semi-dual income tax in the taxation of...

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Sustainability of Portuguese fiscal policy in historical perspective

Marinheiro, Carlos Fonseca (contributor) - 2005

results suggest that fiscal consolidation efforts must, in fact, be continued in Portugal. …

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Persistence in youth unemployment

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2012

, Portugal, Ireland and Finland, where appropriate policy actions are of the essence. Specifically, active labour market policies …

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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Greece

Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Schnabl, Gunther; … - 2015

We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...

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The effects of monetary policy surprises and fiscal sustainability regimes in the Euro Area

Afonso, António; Alves, José; Ionta, Serena - 2023

projection model for the Euro Area (aggregate data), Germany, Italy, and Portugal, we analyze the interaction between both …

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Drivers of fiscal sustainability : a time-varying analysis for Portugal

Afonso, António; Coelho, José Carlos - 2023

We assess the drivers of fiscal sustainability in Portugal during the period 1999Q4-2021Q4. We resort to expanding … the debt-to-GDP ratio. Our results show the prevalence of a Ricardian fiscal regime in Portugal. If the (i-g) differential … financial assistance program to Portugal, between 2011Q2 and 2014Q2. …

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Risk and heterogeneity in benefits from vocational versus general secondary-education : estimates for early and mature career stages in Portugal

Hartog, Joop; Raposo, Pedro; Reis, Hugo - 2023

We estimate a dynamic model of individual labour market careers (turnover and search, wage development) on Portuguese panel data of graduates from vocational and general secondary education. We find that vocational graduates benefit more from the internal labour market than from the external...

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