Over the last 15 years, Portugal and the United States have had the same average unemployment rate, about 6.5%. But … behind these similar rates hide two very different labor markets. Unemployment duration in Portugal is more than three times … that of the United States. Symmetrically, the flow of workers into unemployment in Portugal is, in proportion to the labor …

prediction is clear, but the empirical analysis of trade flows towards Spain and Portugal after their 1986 entry into the …

, compared to Portugal's Algarve region …

This paper considers the effects of Chinese import competition on firm-level labor market outcomes in Portugal. We … examine direct competition in the Portuguese market and indirect competition Portugal's largest export markets in Western … export markets, but minimal effects of direct competition in Portugal. Our findings also suggest a centrally important role …

estimate only moderate effects on the financial sector: the share of Non Performing Loans on bank balance sheets would increase …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

jobs. We illustrate the methodology by applying it to data from an annual census of employers in Portugal over the period … 1982-2007. We find that real entry wages in Portugal over this period tend to be about 1.8 percent higher when the …

Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and …

THS. Linked employer-employee data for Portugal enable us to account for observable as well as unobservable worker quality …