Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling This paper examines the size of inter-industry wage dispersion in Portugal and compares with other countries. We find that the country has a high inter-industry wage inequality compared with the European standard. Nevertheless, the dispersion reduced over the 1980s and the early 1990s along a process of centralisation of the wage sett...

We study the regional location of multinationals in Ireland since the 1970s by focusing on the role played by agglomeration economies and public incentives intent on dispersing industrial activity to the more disadvantaged areas of Ireland. We find that regional policy has only been effective in attracting low-tech firms to the disadvantaged areas during the time when there was a much more lais...

Female Migration and Native Marital Stability: Insights from Italy* In this paper, we argue that the size and the composition of the female migrant population in a given area can affect the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer discrete-time event history models predicting marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social S...

We empirically study how opportunity cost of entrepreneurship conditions entrepreneurial performance. We assume that entrepreneurs in high tech startups aim to “cash out”, by being acquired on favorable terms or through an IPO. Entrepreneurs with few alternative opportunities will tend to linger on as long as they can in the hopes of cashing out, whereas those with plentiful opportunities have ...

Article history: Received 12 October 2012 Received in revised form 24 April 2013 Accepted 20 August 2013 Available online xxxx Industrial competitiveness (IC) is a country's ability to produce and export manufactured goods competitively. Howdoes foreign direct investment (FDI) affect IC in China? The significance of the topic, besides the intrinsic importance of IC, is heightened by outstanding...

according to the recent literature, the expansion of intra-industry trade increases the intra-industrial excess job reallocation. based on lovely and nelson (2002), this study examined the hypothesis that marginal intra-industry trade has a positive effect on the excess job reallocation in iranian industries. therefore, we have employed a panel technique for iranian manufacturing industries at ...

I adopt the distribution dynamics framework to study labor productivity convergence, in the period 1980-1995, among 28 developed and developing countries, in different manufacturing sub-sectors, identified, as according their technological content into Resource Based, Low Technology, Medium Technology and High Technology. I find that, exception made for High Technology and Manufacturing as a wh...