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 …

?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …

of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom. We then simulate … in Italy and Portugal universal policies appear to be too costly in terms of implied top marginal tax rates and in terms …