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Portugal for a long time, but then suddenly reversed their assessment more or less at a stroke. …
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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 …
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Portugal. It collects evidence from available studies on each of those countries and also provides new evidence. These studies …
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In this paper we investigate the process of job search, using a unique, large-scale data set for Portugal that allows …
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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 …
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The paper focuses on the ongoing debate on non-market valuation, including the valuation environmental goods, and the opportunity to use contingent valuation for policy guidance. In fact, contingent valuation critics argue that reported willingness to pay answers do not reflect real economic...
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This paper examines the evolution of the returns to education in Portugal over the 1980s andearly 1990s. The main …
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This paper aims at answering the question: How does a typically 'European' bargaining system - with collective bargaining, extension mechanisms and national minimum wage - coexist with low unemployment rate and high wage flexibility? A unique data set on workers, firms and collective bargaining...
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This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit receipt and maximum duration of benefits on escape rates from unemployment. The focus is on the time profile of transitions out of unemployment. The novel aspect of the study resides in its identification...
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