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Labour demand research : towards a better match between better theory and better data
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José M. - 2014
At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...
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Zooming the ins and outs of the U.S. unemployment with a wavelet lens
Portugal, Pedro; Rua, António - 2018
. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869049
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Disentangling the minimum wage puzzle : an analysis of worker accessions and separations
Portugal, Pedro; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2002
Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for analysis of the employment … well as in new firms and those going out of business, using a count regression model applied to proportions. Employment … on youth employment without decomposing it by type of worker flow. …
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