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The change of economic, social, and political orientation in Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC), together with the accession of a first group into the European Union in 2004, has raised a number of challenging questions. One object of interest has been the implications of Eastern...
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This paper formulates a model of demand for higher education in Portugal considering a wide range of demographic, economic, social and institutional explanatory variables. The estimation results suggest that the number of applicants reacts positively to demographic trends, graduation rates at...
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The academic and political discussion about which countries met the conditions for joining EMU was decisively influenced by the Frankel and Rose (1997) hypothesis concerning endogenous OCA properties. The answer to their question "Is EMU more justifiable ex post than ex ante?" was a definite yes...
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The existence of higher education institutions (HEIs), dispersed in different locations throughout the country, is probably one of the most striking features associated with the expansion of this level of education in Portugal in the last 40 years. This phenomenon is particularly relevant since...
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Em termos tradicionais, a riqueza de uma economia é medida pelo seu nível de produção. Mais recentemente, tem vindo a ser sugerida uma outra medida que se baseia no grau de felicidade, o qual se associa aos níveis de satisfação ou qualidade de vida. Por alguns considerado paradoxal é o...
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Uma análise retrospectiva da sincronização do ciclo económico nacional com alguns ciclos económicos de referência permite retirar conclusões que suportam a necessidade premente de se apostar na produção nacional que, pelas suas características, seja exportável e/ou substituta de...
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As alterações na paisagem que se podem detectar, mais facilmente sobretudo quando se comparam duas realidades suficientemente distantes no tempo, resultam de um processo contínuo de interacção entre elementos, nomeadamente estados da natureza e pessoas, os quais formam um sistema, regra...
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