Pedro Portugal

Research Fellow

Banco de Portugal

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Pedro Portugal (1958), a citizen of Portugal, graduated in economics at Faculdade de Economia do Porto and received his PhD at the University of South Carolina. He is currently a senior researcher at the Bank of Portugal and visiting full professor of economics at Nova School of Business and Economics. Since 2012, he is also a member of the Conselho Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia.
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 and Statistics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Policy, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Economica, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.
He has also published in other fields, namely in Macroeconomics, Industrial Economics and Strategic Management, including the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Small Business Economics and Strategic Management Journal.


He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2004.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8943
Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession
John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal, Hugo Vilares
revised version published as 'Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession: Evidence from Portugal' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(3), 551-576.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8848
Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs
Sónia Félix, Pedro Portugal
published in: International Journal of Drug Policy, 2017, 39, 121-129
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8785
Seriously Strengthening the Tax-Benefit Link
Pedro Portugal, Pedro Raposo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8125
Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data
John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal, José Varejão
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 4-11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7670
Catastrophic Job Destruction
Anabela Carneiro, Pedro Portugal, José Varejão
published as 'Catastrophic job Destruction during the Portuguese Economic Crisis' in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, 39 (Part B), 444-457
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7276
The Sources of Wage Variation: A Three-Way High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Model
Sónia Torres, Pedro Portugal, John T. Addison, Paulo Guimaraes
revised version published as 'The Sources of Wage Variation and the Direction of Assortative Matching: A Three-Way High Dimensional Fixed-Effects Regression Model" in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 47-60.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7109
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex Discrimination
Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes, Pedro Portugal
published as 'What drives the gender wage gap? A look at the role of firm and job-title heterogeneity' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (2), 506-524
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5077
The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus
John T. Addison, José Machado, Pedro Portugal
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (6), 980-987
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4380
Why Do Firms Use Fixed-Term Contracts?
Pedro Portugal, José Varejão
published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2022, 21, 401 - 421
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4187
Increasing the Legal Retirement Age: The Impact on Wages, Worker Flows and Firm Performance
Pedro S. Martins, Alvaro A. Novo, Pedro Portugal
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