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Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

Politicians can use the public sector to give jobs to cronies, at the expense of the efficiency of those organisations and general welfare. In this paper, we regress monthly hires across all firms in Portugal with some degree of public ownership on the country's 1980-2018 political cycle. We...

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Local labour concentration moderates the disemployment effects of minimum wages in China

Martins, Pedro S.; Dai, Li; Duan, Wenjing - 2024

Local labour market concentration may influence firms' employment responses to minimum wages. We evaluate this … wages. We find that, consistently with monopsony views, the negative effects of minimum wages on employment are reduced when … labour market concentration is higher. We also find positive employment effects of minimum wages, but only in some …

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Growth, employment and poverty in Africa : tales of lions and cheetahs ; background paper for the World Development Report 2013

Martins, Pedro S. - 2013

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

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Collateral damage? : labour market effects of competing with China - at home and abroad

Cabral, Sónia; Martins, Pedro S.; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2018

and employment are significantly negatively affected by China's competition, but only through the indirect 'market …

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Which occupations do jobseekers and firms look for? : evidence from three public employment services

Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

microdata covering all 2014-2018 vacancy and jobseeker registrations from the Public Employment Services of Belgium, Morocco …

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Rent Sharing in China : Magnitude, Heterogeneity and Drivers

Duan, Wenjing - 2019

Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering virtually all manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2007, representing an average of 200,000 firms and 54 million workers per year. We find robust evidence of rent sharing...

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Rent sharing in China : magnitude, heterogeneity and drivers

Duan, Wenjing; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering virtually all manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2007, representing an average of 52 million workers per year. We find evidence of rent sharing (RS), with wage-profit...

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Rent sharing in China : magnitude, heterogeneity and drivers

Duan, Wenjing; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019

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