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Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of the firm has received little scrutiny; occupations have most often been coded in a rather aggregate way, lumping together different jobs; and the use of samples of workers...
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(the employer). We combine data of remarkable quality - exhaustive longitudinal linked employer-employee data on Portugal …
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reform introduced in Portugal in 1994: women's LRA was gradually increased from 62 to 65 years while men's LRA stayed …
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Temporary forms of employment account for a variable but never trivial share of total employment in both the U.S. and in Europe. In this article we look at how one specific form of temporary employment - employment with fixed-term contracts - fits into employers' hiring policies. We find that...
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This paper examines the long-term earnings losses of displaced workers in Portugal, using a nationally representative …
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"This study investigates real wage cyclicality in Portugal for the years of 1986-98, addressing the heterogeneity in …
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The consequences of aggregation, temporal or spatial, for the estimation of demand models are theoretically well-known, but have not been documented empirically with appropriate data before. In this paper we conduct a simple, but instructive, exercise to fill in this gap, using a large quarterly...
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In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are to all intents and purposes …
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This paper estimates a structural model of the employment decision of the firm. Our establishment level data displays an extreme degree of rigidity in that employment levels are largely constant throughout our sample. This can be due to the fact that establishments face large shocks but also...
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This paper estimates a wage equation with three high-dimensional fixed effects, using a longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset covering virtually all Portuguese wage earners over a little more than two decades. The variation in log real hourly wages is decomposed into different...
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