Portugal over the period 1998 to 2004. During this period the structural primary balance ratio clearly worsened in all … the structural primary expenditure ratio, while the opposite was true for Portugal. The analysis highlights the various …

Portugal. It collects evidence from available studies on each of those countries and also provides new evidence. These studies …

market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency …' institutional detail on the nature of employment protection in Portugal; and, second, and more substantively, by offering a detailed … analysis of the process of labor djustment in Portugal, benchmarked to other-country experience. The latter exercise - based on …