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Despite significant progress made, improving skills remains one of Portugal’s key challenges for raising growth, living … cooperate with the private sector. This Working Paper relates to the 2017 OECD Economic Survey of Portugal (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-portugal.htm). …
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regular student population enrolled in all public schools of continental Portugal (grades 1 to 12, from 2006/07 to 2016 …
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Using student-level longitudinal data of 6th graders I estimate class composition effects impacting on individual academic achievement. The richness of the dataset allows to tackle endogeneity stemming from between and within-school non-random sorting of students and of teachers and other...
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sustainable knowledge-based living and working environment in Portugal. Most initiatives under the Digital Cities and Regions … technologies (ICTs) by public administrations across the EU. Portugal has been strategically involved in a catching-up process with … high investments in the areas of innovation and ICT infrastructures. This paper is based on the field work and on the …
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general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …
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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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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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The paper contrasts the pattern of returns to human capital in different economic sectors. As job mobility, especially across sectors, is limited, it is argued that coefficients of experience in earnings regressions may capture or be interpreted as the growth rate - net of depreciation - of...
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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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