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Decomposing the wage losses of displaced workers : the role of the reallocation of workers into firms and job titles
Raposo, Pedro; Portugal, Pedro; Carneiro, Anabela - 2015
Using an unusually rich matched employer-employee-job title data set for Portugal, this paper evaluates the sources of wage losses of workers displaced due to firm closure based on the comparison of workers' wages differentials before and after displacement. Potential wage losses of displaced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307887
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Zooming the ins and outs of the U.S. unemployment with a wavelet lens
Portugal, Pedro; Rua, António - 2018
To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction …. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment … finding and job separation rates for the U.S. unemployment rate dynamics. Drawing on this approach, we are able to reconcile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869049
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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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Zooming the Ins and Outs of the U.S. Unemployment with a Wavelet Lens
Portugal, Pedro - 2018
To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction …. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment … finding and job separation rates for the U.S. unemployment rate dynamics. Drawing on this approach, we are able to reconcile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917094
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Decomposing the Wage Losses of Displaced Workers : The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms and Job Titles
Raposo, Pedro S. - 2015
Using an unusually rich matched employer-employee-job title data set for Portugal, this paper evaluates the sources of wage losses of workers displaced due to firm closure based on the comparison of workers' wages differentials before and after displacement. Potential wage losses of displaced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016273
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Matching Workers to Jobs in the Fast Lane: the Operation of Fixed-term Contracts
Varejão, José; Portugal, Pedro - Banco de Portugal - 2004
In this paper we look at fixed-term contracts and examine the main features of temporary as opposed to regular employment, keeping the focus on employment careers and wage dynamics of workers employed under fixed-term contracts. Previous work found that fixed-term contracts serve as screening...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520394
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Spatial and Temporal Aggregation in the Estimation of Labor Demand Functions
Varejão, José; Portugal, Pedro - Banco de Portugal - 2007
The consequences of aggregation, temporal or spatial, for the estimation of demand models are theoretically well-known, but have not been documented empirically with appropriate data before. In this paper we conduct a simple, but instructive, exercise to fill in this gap, using a large quarterly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008524237
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Spatial and Temporal Aggregation in the Estimation of Labor Demand Functions
Varejão, José; Portugal, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The consequences of aggregation, temporal or spatial, for the estimation of demand models are theoretically well-known, but have not been documented empirically with appropriate data before. In this paper we conduct a simple, but instructive, exercise to fill in this gap, using a large quarterly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566347
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A Comparative Study of the Portuguese and Spanish Labour Markets
Bover, Olympia; García-Perea, Pilar; Portugal, Pedro - Banco de España - 1998
Spain faces the highest unemployment rate among the European Union countries (22.2%), and Portugal the lowest (7 … unemployment insurance seems, after 1989, roughly comparable. In this paper we address this puzzle by providing a systematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590675
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Spatial and Temporal Aggregation in the Estimation of Labor Demand Functions
Varejão, José - 2007
The consequences of aggregation, temporal or spatial, for the estimation of demand models are theoretically well-known, but have not been documented empirically with appropriate data before. In this paper we conduct a simple, but instructive, exercise to fill in this gap, using a large quarterly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777084