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Pedro Portugal

Fields of study: 
Industrial economics
Labour economics
Microeconometrics

 

 

Economics and Research Department

pportugal@bportugal.pt

 

 

 

 

Education:

Agregação, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto (1999)

PhD, University of South Carolina (1991) 

Licenciatura, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto (1982)

 

Professional experience:

Senior Researcher, Banco de Portugal, since 1996

 

Academic experience:

Full Professor, NOVA School of Business and Economics

Banco de Portugal scientific articles (70)
2020
The sources of wage variability in Portugal: a binge reading survey
Banco de Portugal Economic Studies
2018
The distribution of wages and wage inequality
Banco de Portugal Economic Studies
2016
The sources of the gender wage gap
Banco de Portugal Economic Studies
2015
On fallacies surrounding the discussion about the reduction of social security contributions
Banco de Portugal Economic Studies
2022
Retrieving the Returns to Experience, Tenure, and Job Mobility from Work Histories
Working Papers
2022
Human Capital Spillovers and Returns to Education
Working Papers
2021
The persistence of wages
Working Papers
2018
The returns to schooling unveiled
Working Papers
2017
Boom, Slump, Sudden stops, Recovery, and Policy Options. Portugal and the Euro.
Working Papers
Published at: Published in Portuguese Economic Journal 16 (3), 2017
2017
Labor market imperfections and the firm’s wage setting policy
Working Papers
2017
Zooming the Ins and Outs of the U.S. Unemployment
Working Papers
Published at: To be published in the European Economic Review
2017
Upward Nominal Wage Rigidity
Working Papers
2015
Sources of the Union Wage Gap: Results from High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Models
Working Papers
2015
Decomposing the wage losses of displaced workers: the role of the reallocation of workers into firms and job titles
Working Papers
Published at: To be published in the Journal of Human Resources
2015
Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession
Working Papers
Published at: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(3), 551-576
2015
Seriously Strengthening the Tax-Benefit Link
Working Papers
2014
Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data
Working Papers
Published at: Labour Economics, 30(C), 2014
2013
The sources of wage variation: a three-way high-dimensional fixed effects regression model
Working Papers
Published at: Labour Economics. 54, 47-60
2013
Everything you always wanted to know about sex discrimination
Working Papers
Published at: Oxford Economic Papers 68 (2), 2016
2013
Catastrophic Job Destruction
Working Papers
Published at: Journal of Macroeconomics, 39(PB) 2014
2010
Joblessness
Working Papers
2010
The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus
Working Papers
Published at: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 75, Issue 6, pp. 980-987, 2013
2010
The Instability of Joint Ventures: Learning from Others or Learning to Work with Others
Working Papers
Published at: International Business Review, 24(4), 677-689
2010
The Sources of Wage Variation: An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data
Working Papers
2010
Borrowing Patterns, Bankruptcy and Voluntary Liquidation
Working Papers
2010
The Hidden Side of Temporary Employment: Fixed-term Contracts as a Screening Device
Working Papers
2009
A Simple Feasible Alternative Procedure to Estimate Models with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects
Working Papers
Published at: The Stata Journal, 2010, 4, 628-649
2009
Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity
Working Papers
Published at: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 4(2), 2012, pp. 133-152
2008
Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages
Working Papers
Published at: Journal of Labor Research, 2009, 30, 1-8
2008
Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach
Working Papers
Published at: Economica, 2010, 77
2007
How Do Different Entitlements to Unemployment Benefits Affect the Transitions from Unemployment into Employment?
Working Papers
Published at: Economics Letters, 2008, 101, 206-209
2007
Labor Adjustment Costs in a Panel of Establishments: A Structural Approach
Working Papers
2007
Spatial and Temporal Aggregation in the Estimation of Labor Demand Functions
Working Papers
2006
Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining
Working Papers
Published at: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (1), 30-47
2006
Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers: Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data Set
Working Papers
2006
U.S. Unemployment Duration: Has Long Become Longer or Short Become Shorter?
Working Papers
2004
Matching Workers to Jobs in the Fast Lane: the Operation of Fixed-term Contracts
Working Papers
2004
How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?
Working Papers
Published at: Economics Letters, 85(2), 2004, 229-234
2004
Workers' Flows and Real Wage Cyclicality
Working Papers
2004
Reservation Wages, Search Duration, and Accepted Wages in Europe
Working Papers
2004
Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory: International Evidence
Working Papers
2003
Wages and the Risk of Displacement
Working Papers
Published at: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 251-276
2003
Bargained Wages, Wage Drift and the Design of the Wage Setting System
Working Papers
Published at: Journal of Labor Economics 23(4):875-902
2003
Employment Dynamics and the Structure of Labor Adjustment Costs
Working Papers
Published at: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 137-165
2003
Six Ways to Leave Unemployment
Working Papers
Published at: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55(4), 393-419
2003
Founding Conditions and the Survival of New Firms
Working Papers
Published at: Strategic Management Journal, 2010, 31, 510-529
2003
Why do Firms Use Fixed-Term Contracts?
Working Papers
2002
Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations from Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Data Set
Working Papers
Published at: Journal of the European Economic Association, 4 (5), 2006, 988-1013
2002
Patterns of Entry, Post-Entry Growth and Survival: A Comparison Between Domestic and Foreign Owned Firms
Working Papers
Published at: Small Business Economics, 22(3), 2004, 283-148
2002
Quantile Regression Methods: na Application to U.S. Unemployment Duration
Working Papers
2001
The Survival of New Domestic and Foreign Owned Firms
Working Papers
Published at: Strategic Management Journal, 23(4), 2002, 323-343
2000
Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks
Working Papers
Published at: Journal of Human Resources, 38(1), 2003, 156-191
1999
Closure and Divestiture By Foreign Entrants: The Impact of Entry and Post-Entry Strategies
Working Papers
Published at: Strategic Management Journal, 21, 2000, 549-562
1998
Job Search Methods and Outcomes
Working Papers
Published at: Oxford Economic Papers, 54(3), 2002, 505-533
1998
On The Time-Varying Effects of Unemployment Insurance on Joblessness
Working Papers
Published at: Economics Letters, 66, 2000, 107-112
1998
Unemployment Insurance and Joblessness in Portugal
Working Papers
Published at: CESifo Forum, 5(1), 2004, 24-30
1998
What Hides Behind An Unemployment Rate: Comparing Portuguese and Us Unemployment
Working Papers
Published at: The American Economic Review, 91(1), 2001, 187-207
1998
A Comparative Study of The Portuguese and Spanish Labour Markets
Working Papers
Published at: Economic Policy, 31, 2000, 381-428
2014
Wage adjustments during a severe economic downturn
Economic Bulletin Articles
2013
Labor unions, union density and the union wage premium
Economic Bulletin Articles
2010
On the cyclical sensitivity of real wages
Economic Bulletin Articles
2008
Unemployment Duration in the Portuguese Labour Market
Economic Bulletin Articles
2007
The Economic Impact of Rising the Retirement Age: Lessons From the September 1993 Law
Economic Bulletin Articles
2006
Wage Setting in the Portuguese Labor Market: A Microeconomic Approach
Economic Bulletin Articles
2004
Myths and Facts Regarding the Portuguese Labour Market - the Tragic Fate of College Graduates
Economic Bulletin Articles
2001
Wages of Civil Servants
Economic Bulletin Articles
1999
Employment volatility, employment protection and unemployment
Economic Bulletin Articles
1997
Mobility and unemployment in the Portuguese labour market
Economic Bulletin Articles
2011
Debt and extinction of firms
Financial Stability Articles
2009
The Portuguese Economy in the Context of Economic, Financial and Monetary Integration
Other Contributions
Other scientific articles (29)
2011
Worker and Firm Heterogeneity in the Determination of Wages
Other Contributions
2010
Price and wage formation in Portugal
Other Contributions
Published at: ECB Working Paper N.1225, 2010
2009
Subsídios e Duração do Desemprego
Other Contributions
2005
The impact of minimum wages on job flows
Other Contributions
2004
Desincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits on the Paths out of Employment
Other Contributions
Published at: CESifo Forum, 5, 2004
2003
Short- and Long-Term Unemployment: A Discrete Duration Model with Time-Varying Effects
Other Contributions
Published at: Labor Markets and Social Security, 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003
2002
Exploring Transition Data through Quantile Regression Methods: An Application to U. S Unemployment Duration
Other Contributions
Published at: Statistics in Industry and Technology: Statistical Data Analysis Based on the L1-Norm and Related Methods, Birkhauser Basel, Switzerland, 2002
2000
Short and Long-term Unemployment
Other Contributions
Published at: Economics Letters, 66, 2000
2000
Short and Long-Term Joblessness: A Semi-Parametric Model with Time-Varying Effects
Other Contributions
1999
Technological Intensity, Demand Conditions and the Longevity of Firms
Other Contributions
1998
Some Specification Issues in Unemployment Duration Analysis
Other Contributions
Published at: Labour Economics 5, 1998
1997
Exercícios de Econometria
Other Contributions
1995
Start-up Conditions and Post-Entry Evolution
Other Contributions
Published at: International Journal of Industrial Organisation, 13, 1995
1995
Short and Long-Term Unemployment: a Parametric Model with Time-Varying Effects
Other Contributions
Published at: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 57, 1995
1994
Life Duration of New Firms
Other Contributions
Published at: Journal of Industrial Economics, 42, 1994
1992
Advance Notice and Unemployment: New Evidence from the 1988 Displaced Worker Survey
Other Contributions
Published at: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 45, 1992
1992
Advance Notice: From Voluntary Exchange to Mandated Benefits
Other Contributions
Published at: Mario F. Bognano and Morris M. Kleiner (eds.), Labor Market Institutions and the Future Role of Unions, Oxford and Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992, pp. 159-78
1992
Prenotification of Impending Job Loss: From Voluntary Exchange to Mandated Benefits
Other Contributions
Published at: Industrial Relations, 31, 1992
1992
The Distributional Shape of Unemployment Duration: A Reply
Other Contributions
Published at: Review of Economic and Statistics 74, 1992
1991
Does Advance Notice Facilitate Better Job Matches?
Other Contributions
Published at: Economics Letters 1991
1991
Duration Models of Unemployment
Other Contributions
1990
Sample Definition and Specification Problems in Studies of the Effects of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration
Other Contributions
Published at: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43, 1990
1989
The Endogeneity of Union Status and the Application of the Hausman Test
Other Contributions
Published at: Journal of Labor Research 10, 1989
1989
Job Displacement, Relative Wage Changes, and Duration of Unemployment
Other Contributions
Published at: Journal of Labor Economics 7, 1989
1989
On the Costs of Worker Displacement: The Case of Dissipated Firm-Specific Training Investments
Other Contributions
Published at: Southern Economic Journal 55, 1989
1987
The Effect of Advance Notification of Plant Closings on Unemployment
Other Contributions
Published at: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 41, 1987
1987
On the Distributional Shape of Unemployment Duration
Other Contributions
Published at: Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 69, No 3, pp. 520-526
1987
On the Distributional Shape of Unemployment Duration
Other Contributions
Published at: Review of Economics and Statistics 69, 1987
1987
Job Loss and Job Change: Discussion by the Authors
Other Contributions
Published at: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 41, 1987
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