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"O Ensino Superior e a Formação e Aprendizagem ao Longo da Vida"

Chagas Lopes, Margarida; PINTO, AQUILES - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

ABSTRACT In the behalf of CNAVES – the Portuguese agency for HE evaluation –we developed this study with the main purpose of assessing the role played by Higher Education (HE) in the usually called lifewide learning process. Likewise six Portuguese HE institutions and four among the main...

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Health Care and Health Outcomes of Migrants: Evidence from Portugal

Barros, Pedro Pita; Pereira, Isabel Medalho - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2010

This paper studies the performance of immigrants relative to natives, in terms of their health status, use of health care services, lifestyles, and coverage of health expenditures. We base the analysis on international evidence that identified a healthy immigrant effect, complemented by...

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Election Results and Opportunistic Policies: A New Test of the Rational Political Business Cycle Model

Veiga, Linda Gonçalves; Veiga, Francisco José; Aidt, … - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2009

The literature on the rational political business cycle suggests that politicians systematically manipulate economic and fiscal conditions before elections to increase their chance of gaining reelection. Most tests of this theory look for evidence of preelection distortions in fiscal policy. We...

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Fiscal Regime Shifts in Portugal

Afonso, António; Claeys, Peter; Sousa, Ricardo M. - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2009

We estimate changes in fiscal policy regimes in Portugal with a Markov Switching regression of fiscal policy rules for …

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Intra-Industry Trade in Tourism Services

LEITÃO, Nuno Carlos - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics XVIII(2011) (2011) 6(559), pp. 55-62

(Brülhart). Our results show that the tourism services are important for a small economy such as Portugal. The intra …-industry trade is very significant between Portugal and the following countries: Spain, USA, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Canada. …

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Extending the Kuznets Curve

Guilera, Jordi - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2011

Recent decades have been characterized by a steep increase in wage inequality globally. In order to explain this phenomenon, this paper extends the classic Kuznets Curve to include post-industrial economies. According to this Extended Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, wage inequality may follow an...

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Election results and opportunistic policies: A new test of the rational political business cycle model

Aidt, Toke; Veiga, Francisco; Veiga, Linda - In: Public Choice 148 (2011) 1, pp. 21-44

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Fragmentation in the automobile manufacturing industry: evidence from Portugal

Faustino, Horácio C.; Leitão, Nuno Carlos - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) July, pp. 287-300

components industry between Portugal and the European Union 27 (EU-27) and the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China … variables. Findings – The results indicate that VIIT is a positive function of the difference in per-capita GDP between Portugal … distance influences negatively this type of VIIT between Portugal and the EU-27 only. The results do not confirm the hypothesis …

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Financial constraints, exports and monetary integration - Financial constraints and exports: An analysis of Portuguese firms during the European monetary integration

Silva, Filipe; Carreira, Carlos - Gabinete de Estratégia e Estudos (GEE), Ministério da … - 2011

Financial constraints are a key determinant that hinders firms' ability to export. This paper analyses the nexus between these constraints and firms' engagement in international trade, as well as it explores the impact of the European monetary integration process upon firms' financial...

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Worker Remittances in an International Scope

Orozco, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

/Saudi A.), Portugal (Europe), Greece (U.S./W.E.), Philippines (U.S.), Zimbabwe/Mozambique (South Africa.), Turkey (Germany …

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