What Hides Behind an Unemployment Rate: Comparing Portuguese and U.S. Labor Markets

By Olivier J. Blanchard, Pedro Portugal. 2001

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Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions: Evidence from Europe (2007, neutral): “[7] Blanchard, Olivier and Pedro Portugal, 2001, “What Hides behind an Unemployment Rate? Comparing Portuguese and U.”
Barriers to entry: insider/outsider politics and the political determinants of job security regulations (2009, background): “Rueda, 2005), long-term unemployed people (EspingAndersen, 2000; Blanchard and Portugal, 2001) or women (Taylor-Gooby, 1991; Esping-Andersen, 1996;”
Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations (2006, background): “This analysis provides a more complete picture of the impact of the minimum wage in an economy with high levels of firm creation and firm destruction (Blanchard and Portugal, 2001).”
The labor market effects of foreign owned firms (2004, background): “Column (3) in tables 2 and 3 present the results of estimating equation (3.”
Enforcement of labor regulation and firm size (2009, background): “Part of this literature explores cross country variation in the labor regulations (e.g., Botero, Djankov, La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes and Shleifer, 2004, Nickell and Layard, 2000 and Heckman and Pages, 2003, Lazear, 1990, Blanchard and Wolfers, 2000, Blanchard and Portugal, 2001).”
Labor market policies and IMF advice in advanced economies during the Great Recession (2013, neutral): “However, Portugal had low flows and high duration, and the U.S. had the reverse (Blanchard and Portugal, 2001).”
Does Employment Protection Reduce Productivity? Evidence from US States (2007, neutral): “Consequently, firms will find it optimal not to hire workers whose short-term marginal product exceeds their market wage and will choose to retain unproductive workers whose wage exceeds their productivity ( Blanchard and Portugal, 2001 ).”
Job Search Methods and Outcomes (2002, neutral): “The concatenation of low rates of unemployment and high long-term employment in Portugal has recently been analysed by Blanchard and Portugal (2001), who ascribe each to stringent job protection legislation and therefore see the problem as being one of low-intensity labour market flows.”
Employment Protection Legislation, Adjustment Costs and Cross-Country Differences in Cost Behavior (2012, background): “(2004), Botero et al. (2004), Boeri and Jimeno (2005), Haltiwanger et al.”