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Trade induced skill upgrading : lessons from the Danish and Portuguese experiences

Gu, Grace Weishi; Malik, Samreen; Pozzoli, Dario; … - 2016

trade integration. Using administrative data for both Denmark (1993-2012) and Portugal (1993-2011), we perform a two … both the average and the standard deviation of skills increase as a result of trade integration. For Portugal we find …

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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?

Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017

firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non …

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The impact of interest in school on educational success in Portugal

Goulart, Pedro; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 2011

Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest … prior interest in school has a bearing on future educational success. -- schooling ; Portugal ; educational outcomes …

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …

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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages : evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009

This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...

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Immigrants at new destinations : how they fare and why

Carneiro, Anabela; Fortuna, Natércia; Varejão, José M. - 2010

Using matched employer-employee data, we identify the determinants of immigrants’ earnings in the Portuguese labor market. Results previously reported for countries with a long tradition of hosting migrants are also valid in a new destination country. Two-thirds of the gap is attributable to...

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Can compulsory military service raise civilian wages? : evidence from the peacetime draft in Portugal

Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2011

Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the Vietnam-era draft in the U.S. lowered the early-career wages of conscripts, a finding he attributed to...

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Are older workers worthy of their pay? : an empirical investigation of age-productivity and age-wage nexuses

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Varejão, José M. - 2010

Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas wages peak around the age 40-44. At younger ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains...

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Everything you always wanted to know about sex discrimination

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2012

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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Spain, Ireland, Denmark, Greece, Portugal : main report

Storey, David J.; Johnson, Steven G. - 1987

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