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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal

Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market

Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2007

-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …

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Trends for the development of anthropocentric production systems in small less industrialised countries: The case of Portugal

Kovács, Ilona; Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

less industrialized member states of the European Union, specifically the case of Portugal, based on the report for the … considerations related to the socioeconomic factors affecting the prospects and conditions for APS in Portugal. APS is defined as a … stress the trends for the implementation and development of anthropocentric production systems in Portugal. …

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CONDITIONS OF INTER-FIRM CO-OPERATION IN A VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE CONCEPT : THE CASE OF AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR IN PORTUGAL

Moniz, António; Kovács, Ilona - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

One can assist to significant changes in the organisation of manufacturing systems during the last years. Lean production, network enterprise or the virtual enterprises are reference concepts of the re-organisation of manufacturing systems. Some authors mention a new enterprise paradigm, of...

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Skills Dynamics and (the Need for) Longitudinal Data

Lopes, Margarida Chagas; Fernandes, Graça Leão - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2004

Skills dynamics analyses are frequently carried on the basis of synchronic data, namely the one provided by firms’ Employment Records. As this kind of surveys are designed to depict formal employment, not only separation spells but also most infra annual flows are not taken into consideration....

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Firm-Level Social Returns to Education

Martins, Pedro S. - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 2004

Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? We investigate this question drawing on a panel of large Portuguese firms and their workers, using fixed effects and instrumenting average schooling in each firm-year with its lagged value and the lagged share of retirement-age workers....

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Enhancing Portugal's Human Capital

Guichard, Stéphanie; Larre, Bénédicte - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

The lack of human capital in Portugal has become a key obstacle to higher growth. This paper discusses the performance … of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human … of the services that compound the low starting point of Portugal regarding education. Modernizing the Portuguese economy …

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