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The dynamics of job creation and destruction for university graduates : why a rising unemployment rate can be misleading
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Ferreira, Priscila - 2002
creation and job destruction for university graduates, compared to other groups of workers. We find that the unemployment rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414508
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The Dynamics of Job Creation and Destruction for University Graduates: Why a Rising Unemployment Rate Can Be Misleading
Ferreira, Priscila; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2002
creation and job destruction for university graduates, compared to other groups of workers. We find that the unemployment rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262460
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The Dynamics of Job Creation and Destruction for University Graduates : Why a Rising Unemployment Rate Can Be Misleading
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Ferreira, Priscila - 2021
creation and job destruction for university graduates, compared to other groups of workers. We find that the unemployment rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320218
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Real wages and the business cycle : accounting for worker and firm heterogeneity
Carneiro, Anabela; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2009
wages. A one-point increase in the unemployment rate decreases wages of newly hired male workers by around 2.8% and by just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845984
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Can a search model predict the effects of an increase in the benefit duration? : evidence from the Portuguese unemployment insurance reform
Novo, Alvaro A.; Silva, André C. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 3, pp. 1-14
unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased … the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for … successfully predicts the effects on the unemployment rate, the labor force participation, and the levels of unemployment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011710699
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Jobs for Young University Graduates : Is It Worth Having a Degree?
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2004
pace and the share of university graduates in total labour force has been increasing, but where the unemployment rate for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262056
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Excess turnover and employment growth: firm and match heterogeneity
Centeno, Mário; Machado, Carla; Novo, Álvaro A. - 2009
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in a large heterogeneity of flows and excess turnover. Large and older firms have lower flows, but high excess turnover rates. In small firms, hires and separations move...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269455
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An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market
Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2007
In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317919
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Excess worker turnover and fixed-term contracts: Causal evidence in a two-tier system
Centeno, Mario; Novo, Alvaro A. - 2011
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in high excess worker turnover flows. These flows are constrained by the employment protection gap between open-ended and fixed-term contracts. We explore a reform that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282131
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Hours of work and retirement behavior
Machado, C. Sofia; Portela, Miguel - 2012
Using a novel dataset from the 2006 Portuguese Labor Force Survey this paper examines the impact of a voluntary reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282150