Câmara Municipal do Porto, in collaboration with CEMPRE, is implementing an information system on the quality of life in Porto. Before the presentation of the model that we developed, we discuss the concept of quality of life and present some theoretical contributions relevant for the project....

Using a large administrative matched employer-employee dataset we analyse the gender wage gap in the Portuguese tourism labour market. As background, employment and pay in the tourism industry is thoroughly characterized. Using the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of the gender wage gap, we find...

This paper uses Sims’s VAR methodology, as an alternative to Deaton and Muellbauer’s AIDS approach, to establish the long-run relationships between I(1) variables: tourism shares, tourism prices and UK tourism budget. The VAR deterministic components and sets of exogenous and endogenous...