make the economy less stable at the aggregate level. As in Nelson and Winter (1982), firms differ in their labor … explain the key results. Optimal selectivity is larger, the less "cobweb unstable" the economy, i.e. the more elastic the …

it the Great Recession), but the Australian economy appears to be powering ahead. It is a miracle economy! Unlike most of … economy compared to some of the OECD countries and see that, in fact, Australia has a "miracle economy". The comparisons are …

Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for analysis of the employment …

This study uses a matched employer-employee data set on the Portuguese economy to analyze systematic information on job … Portuguese economy. …

We study how the skill distribution for the whole economy responds to changes in the skill premium which are induced by … 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 …

eliminate this bias. Estimates from two large panel datasets from Portugal and Germany show that the bias is empirically …

This paper investigates the impact of drug decriminalization in Portugal using the Synthetic Control Method. The … of similar European countries. The results suggest that a policy change implemented in Portugal contributed to a decrease …

performance. We compare two countries with seemingly similar collective bargaining systems, the Netherlands and Portugal, and …