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Pedro Portugal

Pedro Portugal

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
35
Citations
9300
World Ranking
2885
National Ranking
10

Overview

Pedro Portugal is affiliated with Banco de Portugal, where their research focuses on the intersection of economics and physics. Their work spans multiple fields, including Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Physics and Astronomy.

The scientist has published extensively in economics with a particular emphasis on labor market dynamics and wage inequality, firm innovation and growth, and economic policies and their impacts. In physics, their research covers quantum and electron transport phenomena, quantum information and cryptography, strong light-matter interactions, and advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.

Pedro Portugal's recent publications include:

  • "Why do firms use fixed-term contracts?" (2022) in the Portuguese Economic Journal
  • "Photon emission statistics of a driven microwave cavity" (2023) in Physical Review Research
  • "What Lies behind the Returns to Schooling: The Role of Labor Market Sorting and Worker Heterogeneity" (2024) in The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • "Human Capital Spillovers and the External Returns to Education" (2025) in SSRN Electronic Journal

They also contributed to interdisciplinary studies touching on labor economics and statistical physics, demonstrating a diverse methodological approach.

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include:

  • Christian Flindt
  • Fredrik Brange
  • John T. Addison
  • Pedro S. Raposo
  • Hugo Reis

Their research has appeared across a range of academic venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their work. These publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Econometrics
  • Portuguese Economic Journal
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics

Main fields of study cover Economics, Econometrics and Finance as well as Physics and Astronomy, with subfields focusing on Economics and Econometrics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and General Health Professions.

Key research topics include:

  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Economic Policies and Impacts
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Strong Light-Matter Interactions
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Best Publications

  • Life Duration of New Firms

    Jose Mata;Pedro Portugal

  • The survival of new plants: Start-up conditions and post-entry evolution

    José Mata;Pedro Portugal;Paulo Guimarães

  • Founding Conditions and the Survival of New Firms

    Paul A. Geroski;José Mata;Pedro Portugal

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

    Olivier Blanchard;Pedro Portugal

  • A simple feasible procedure to fit models with high-dimensional fixed effects

    Paulo Guimarães;Pedro Portugal

  • The Survival of New Domestic and Foreign‐owned Firms

    José Mata;Pedro Portugal

  • Job Search Methods and Outcomes

    John T. Addison;Pedro Portugal

  • Job Displacement, Relative Wage Changes, and Duration of Unemployment

    John T. Addison;Pedro Portugal

  • Closure and divestiture by foreign entrants: the impact of entry and post‐entry strategies

    José Mata;Pedro Portugal

  • Contractual Wages and the Wage Cushion under Different Bargaining Settings

    Ana Rute Cardoso;Pedro Portugal

  • Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker, Firm, and Job Title Heterogeneity

    Anabela Carneiro;Paulo Guimarães;Pedro Portugal

  • DISENTANGLING THE MINIMUM WAGE PUZZLE: AN ANALYSIS OF WORKER ACCESSIONS AND SEPARATIONS

    Pedro Portugal;Ana Rute Cardoso

  • Patterns of Entry, Post-entry Growth and Survival: A Comparison between Domestic and Foreign Owned Firms

    José Mata;Pedro Portugal

  • Labour market outliers: Lessons from Portugal and Spain

    Olympia Bover;Pilar García-Perea;Pedro Portugal

  • The Effect of Advance Notification of Plant Closings on Unemployment

    John T. Addison;Pedro Portugal

  • Catastrophic job Destruction during the Portuguese Economic Crisis

    Anabela Carneiro;Pedro Portugal;José Varejão

  • Employment Dynamics and the Structure of Labor Adjustment Costs

    José Varejão;Pedro Portugal

  • Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks

    John T. Addison;Pedro Portugal

  • A Simple Feasible Alternative Procedure to Estimate Models with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects

    Paulo Guimaraes;Pedro Portugal

  • What drives the gender wage gap? A look at the role of firm and job-title heterogeneity

    Ana Rute Cardoso;Paulo Guimarães;Pedro Portugal

  • Reservation Wages, Search Duration, and Accepted Wages in Europe

    John T. Addison;Mario Centeno;Pedro Portugal

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Addison
John T. Addison University of South Carolina
Olivier J. Blanchard
Olivier J. Blanchard Peterson Institute for International Economics
João M. C. Sousa
João M. C. Sousa Instituto Superior Técnico
Manuel Fernando R. Pereira
Manuel Fernando R. Pereira University of Porto

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