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Minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms : a narrative database for advanced economies

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - 2022

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major reforms, which is valuable in many...

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Labour productivity in state-owned enterprises

Afonso, António; Guedes, Maria João; Patel, Pankaj - 2020

In the aftermath of the Global and Financial Crisis (GFC), between 2013 and 2015, the Portuguese government revoked four holidays for both public sector and private employees. We test whether the revocation had an effect on labour productivity in State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Portugal....

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Public and private inputs in aggregate production and growth : a cross-country efficiency approach

Afonso, António; St. Aubyn, Miguel - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 31/33, pp. 4487-4502

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Labour Productivity in State-Owned Enterprises

Afonso, António - 2020

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Minimum wage and collective bargaining shocks : a narrative database for advanced economies

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - In: IZA journal of labor policy 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-18

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining (CB) shocks covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major shocks, which is valuable in...

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Public sector efficiency: evidence for new EU member states and emerging markets

Afonso, António; Schuknecht, Ludger; Tanzi, Vito - 2006

In this paper we analyse public sector efficiency in the new member states of the European Union compared to that in … emerging markets. After a conceptual discussion of expenditure efficiency measurement issues, we compute efficiency scores and … rankings by applying a range of measurement techniques. The study finds that expenditure efficiency across new EU member states …

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