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Jobs for Young University Graduates : Is It Worth Having a Degree?
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2004
people with lower levels of schooling? It focuses on Portugal, where the higher education system has been expanding at a fast …
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
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Immigrants at new destinations: How they fare and why
Carneiro, Anabela; Fortuna, Natércia; Varejão, José - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269812
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On the Returns to Training in Portugal
Budría, Santiago; Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2004
workers participating substantially less. Second, we measure the wage effects of training. We find that in Portugal returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271827
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The impact of interest in school on educational success in Portugal
Goulart, Pedro; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2011
Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274665
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Firm-Level Social Returns to Education
Martins, Pedro Silva - 2004
Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by introducing a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may transfer part of their general skills to uneducated workers and that this spillover is affected by the degrees of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275777
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Everything you always wanted to know about sex discrimination
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Portugal, Pedro - 2012
Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of the firm has received little scrutiny; occupations have most often been coded in a rather aggregate way, lumping together different jobs; and the use of samples of workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291436
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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305881
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Does Qualification Drive Innovation? A Microeconometric Analysis Using Linked-employer-employee Data
Brandenburg, Bianca; Günther, Jutta; Schneider, Lutz - 2007
source of innovative activities within companies. Broken down by sectoral innovation patterns, this article examines the role … of formal education and actual occupation for product innovation performance in manufacturing firms within a probit model … to the Pavitt classification. Sectors with a high share of highly skilled employees engage in product innovation above …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269968
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Innovation and social capital: Across-country investigation
Doh, Soogwan; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2009
This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271793