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Pedro Portugal

Fields of interest: Labor Economics, Microeconometrics, and Industrial Economics.

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Pedro Portugal (1958), a citizen of Portugal, studied economics at the University of South Carolina, where he received his PhD in 1991. He is currently a senior researcher at the Bank of Portugal and invited professor of economics at the Faculdade de Economia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
His main area of interest is applied labor economics, focusing on issues of microeconomics of unemployment, unemployment compensation, wage bargaining, job security, and worker displacement. Pedro Portugal has published in the major economics and labor economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economics & Statistics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Policy, Economica, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
He has also published in other fields, namely in Industrial Economics and Strategic Management, including the Journal of  Industrial Economics,  International Journal of Industrial Organization, Small Business Economics and  Strategic Management Journal.

BdP Publications

TitleRelease YearPublication Type
Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity2011Working Paper
Debt and extinction of firms2011Financial Stability Report Article
Founding Conditions and the of New Firms2010Working Paper
A Simple Feasible Alternative Procedure to Estimate Models with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects2010Working Paper
The Sources of Wage Variation: An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data2010Working Paper
The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus2010Working Paper
Borrowing Patterns, Bankruptcy and Voluntary Liquidation2010Working Paper
The Instability of Joint Ventures: Learning from Others or Learning to Work with Others2010Working Paper
The Hidden Side of Temporary Employment: Fixed-term Contracts as a Screening Device2010Working Paper
Joblessness2010Working Paper
On the cyclical sensitivity of real wages2010Economic Bulletin Article
Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages2008Working Paper
Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach2008Working Paper
Unemployment Duration in the Portuguese Labour Market2008Economic Bulletin Article
Spatial and Temporal Aggregation in the Estimation of Labor Demand Functions2007Working Paper
How Do Different Entitlements to Unemployment Benefits Affect the Transitions from Unemployment into Employment?2007Working Paper
Labor Adjustment Costs in a Panel of Establishments: A Structural Approach2007Working Paper
The Economic Impact of Rising the Retirement Age: Lessons From the September 1993 Law2007Economic Bulletin Article
Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining2006Working Paper
U.S. Unemployment Duration: Has Long Become Longer or Short Become Shorter?2006Working Paper
Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers: Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data Set2006Working Paper
Wage Setting in the Portuguese Labor Market: A Microeconomic Approach2006Economic Bulletin Article
How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?2004Working Paper
Workers' Flows and Real Wage Cyclicality2004Working Paper
Matching Workers to Jobs in the Fast Lane: the Operation of Fixed-term Contracts2004Working Paper
Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory: International Evidence2004Working Paper
Reservation Wages, Search Duration, and Accepted Wages in Europe2004Working Paper
Myths and Facts Regarding the Portuguese Labour Market - the Tragic Fate of College Graduates2004Economic Bulletin Article
Why do Firms Use Fixed-Term Contracts?2003Working Paper
Wages and the Risk of Displacement2003Working Paper
Six Ways to Leave Unemployment2003Working Paper
Employment Dynamics and the Structure of Labor Adjustment Costs2003Working Paper
Bargained Wages, Wage Drift and the Design of the Wage Setting System2003Working Paper
Quantile Regression Methods: na Application to U.S. Unemployment Duration2002Working Paper
Patterns of Entry, Post-Entry Growth and Survival: A Comparison Between Domestic and Foreign Owned Firms2002Working Paper
Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations from Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Data Set2002Working Paper
The Survival of New Domestic and Foreign Owned Firms2001Working Paper
Wages of Civil Servants2001Economic Bulletin Article
Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks2000Working Paper
Closure and Divestiture By Foreign Entrants: The Impact of Entry and Post-Entry Strategies1999Working Paper
Employment volatility, employment protection and unemployment1999Economic Bulletin Article
On The Time-Varying Effects of Unemployment Insurance on Joblessness1998Working Paper
Job Search Methods and Outcomes1998Working Paper
A Comparative Study of The Portuguese and Spanish Labour Markets1998Working Paper
What Hides Behind An Unemployment Rate: Comparing Portuguese and Us Unemployment1998Working Paper
Unemployment Insurance and Joblessness in Portugal1998Working Paper
Mobility and unemployment in the Portuguese labour market1997Economic Bulletin Article

Other Publications

TitleRelease YearPublication
Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity2011American Economic Jornal: Macroeconomics, 2011(forthcoming)
Founding Conditions and the of New Firms2010Strategic Management Journal, 2010, 31, 510-529
Price and wage formation in Portugal2010ECB Working Paper no.1225
A Simple Feasible Alternative Procedure to Estimate Models with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects2010The Stata Journal, 2010, 4, 628-649
Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages2009Journal of Labor Research, 2009, 30, 1-8
Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach2009Economica, 2010, 77
Subsídios e Duração do Desemprego2009Portugal sem Fronteiras, edited by Pedro Lains, ICS, 2009
Wages and the Risk of Displacement2008Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 251-276
Six Ways to Leave Unemployment2008Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55(4), 393-419
Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage BargainingSticky Prices in The Euro Area: a Summary of New Micro Evidence2008International Journal of Manpower, 29 (2008)
How Do Different Entitlements to Unemployment Benefits Affect the Transitions from Unemployment into Employment?2008Economics Letters, 2008, 101, 206-209
Wage Setting in the Portuguese Labor Market: A Microeconomic Approach2008Chalanges Ahead for the Portuguese Economy, edited by Francesco Franco, ICS, 2008
Employment Dynamics and the Structure of Labor Adjustment Costs2007Journal of Labor Economics, 25 (2007)
Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations from Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Data Set2006Journal of the European Economic Association, 4 (5), 2006, 988-1013
Contractual Wages and the Wage Cushion under Different Bargaining Settings2005Journal of Labour Economics, 23, 2005
Matching Workers to Jobs in the Fast Lane: The Operation of Fixed-Term Contracts2005What Explains the Pattern of Labour Supply in Europe? edited by R. Gomez Salvador, A. Lamo, B. Petrongolo, M. Ward, and E. Wasmer, Kluwer Academic Press, 2005
The impact of minimum wages on job flows2005Low wage Employment in Europe: Perspectives for Improvement., edited by Marx and Wiemer Salverda Antwerp: Acco, 2005
Desincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits on the Paths out of Employment2004CESifo Forum, 5(1), 2004, 24-30
Patterns of Entry, Post-Entry Growth and Survival: A Comparison Between Domestic and Foreign Owned Firms2004Small Business Economics, 22(3), 2004, 283-148
How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?2004Economics Letters, 85(2), 2004, 229-234
What Explains the Pattern of Labour Adjustment Costs2004Kluwer Academic Press,2004
Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks2003Journal of Human Resources, 38(1), 2003, 156-191
Short- and Long-Term Unemployment: A Discrete Duration Model with Time-Varying Effects2003Addison and Welfens (ed.), Labor Markets and Social Security, 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003
Job Search Methods and Outcomes2002Oxford Economic Papers, 54(3), 2002, 505-533
Exploring Transition Data through Quantile Regression Methods: An Application to U. S Unemployment Duration2002Yadolah Dodge (ed.), Statistics in Industry and Technology: Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L1-Norm and Related Methods, Birkhauser Basel, Switzerland, 2002
What Hides Behind an Unemployment Rate: Comparing Portuguese and U.S. Labour Markets2001The American Economic Review, 91(1), 2001, 187-207
Labour Market Outliers: Lessons from Portugal and Spain2000Economic Policy, 31, 2000, 381-428
Short and Long-Term Joblessness: A Semi-Parametric Model with Time-Varying Effects2000Economics Letters, 66, 2000, 107-112
Closure and Divestiture By Foreign Entrants: The Impact of Entry and Post-Entry Strategies2000Strategic Management Journal, 21, 2000, 549-562
The Survival of New Domestic and Foreign Owned Firms2000Strategic Management Journal, 23(4), 2002, 323-343
Technological Intensity, Demand Conditions and the Longevity of Firms1999David B. Audresch e Roy Thurik (eds.), Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment, Cambridge University Press, 1999
Some Specification Issues in Unemployment Duration Analysis1998Labour Economics 5, 1998
Exercícios de Econometria1997McGraw Hill, 1997
Start-up Conditions and Post-Entry Evolution1995International Journal of Industrial Organisation, 13, 1995
Short and Long-Term Unemployment: a Parametric Model with Time-Varying Effects1995Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 57, 1995
Life Duration of New Firms1994Journal of Industrial Economics, 42, 1994 (reprinted in D. Audretsch and S. Klepper (ed.) Innovation, Evolution of Industry and Economic Growth, UK, 2000)
Prenotification of Impending Job Loss: From Voluntary Exchange to Mandated Benefits1992Industrial Relations 31, 1992
Advance Notice and Unemployment: New Evidence from the 1988 Displaced Worker Survey1992Industrial and Labor Relations Review 45, 1992
The Distributional Shape of Unemployment Duration: A Reply1992Review of Economic and Statistics 74, 1992
Advance Notice: From Voluntary Exchange to Mandated Benefits1992Mario F. Bognano and Morris M. Kleiner (eds.), Labor Market Institutions and the Future Role of Unions, Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992, pp. 159-78
Does Advance Notice Facilitate Better Job Matches?1991Economics Letters 1991
Duration Models of Unemployment1991Job Displacement: Consequences and Implications for Policy John T. Addison (ed.) Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1991, pp. 184-202
Advance Notice1991Job Displacement: Consequences and Implications for Policy John T. Addison (ed.) Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1991, pp. 203-43
Sample Definition and Specification Problems in Studies of the Effects of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration1990Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43, 1990
Job Displacement, Relative Wage Changes, and Duration of Unemployment1989Journal of Labor Economics, 7, 1989.
The Endogeneity of Union Status and the Application of the Hausman Test1989Journal of Labor Research, 10, 1989
On the Costs of Worker Displacement: The Case of Dissipated Firm-Specific Training Investments1989Southern Economic Journal, 55, 1989
On the Distributional Shape of Unemployment Duration1987Review of Economics and Statistics, 69, 1987
The Effect of Advance Notification of Plant Closings on Unemployment1987Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 41, 1987
Job Loss and Job Change: Discussion by the Authors1987Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 41, 1987

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