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Raising skills in Portugal
Araújo, Sónia - 2017
Despite significant progress made, improving skills remains one of Portugal’s key challenges for raising growth, living … cooperate with the private sector. This Working Paper relates to the 2017 OECD Economic Survey of Portugal (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-portugal.htm). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732701
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European universities during the crisis : a public policy perspective, with a brief excursion to the US
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015
productivity imparted by the knowledge economy. At the same time, equality of opportunity for participation in higher education … in Europe as in the US. Asian countries may - as a result - have improved their position in innovation. The room for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333041
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Why has science become an old man's game?
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick; Hrendash, Taras - 2023
We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326208
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Trade induced skill upgrading : lessons from the Danish and Portuguese experiences
Gu, Grace Weishi; Malik, Samreen; Pozzoli, Dario; … - 2016
trade integration. Using administrative data for both Denmark (1993-2012) and Portugal (1993-2011), we perform a two … both the average and the standard deviation of skills increase as a result of trade integration. For Portugal we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502413
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Segmented life-cycle labor markets : Portuguese evidence
Martins, Ana Paula - 2011
The paper contrasts the pattern of returns to human capital in different economic sectors. As job mobility, especially across sectors, is limited, it is argued that coefficients of experience in earnings regressions may capture or be interpreted as the growth rate - net of depreciation - of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524845
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636681
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, André; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111543
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The impact of interest in school on educational success in Portugal
Goulart, Pedro; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 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 … prior interest in school has a bearing on future educational success. -- schooling ; Portugal ; educational outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127021
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 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/10011325999
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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages : evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009
This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858862