This book provides a new understanding of the eurozone crisis across three of the worst hit
cases: Greece, Portugal, and Ireland. In contrast to accounts which stress the 'immaturity'of …

In this paper we report and discuss estimates of life-cycle consumption profiles obtained
using microdata for Portuguese households. The estimated profiles are much flatter than the …

Portugal's economic crisis was characterised by the experience of 'all of the signs of
overheating… without any acceleration of GDP'(Deutsche Bank 2010). This chapter traces …

Although not a recent phenomenon, offshoring has assumed increasing importance in terms
of multinational enterprises' activities, often being the subject of discussion at the political …

A founding myth of the euro was that profound economic convergence could be achieved
across the core and periphery of Europe. Scholarship from within Comparative Political …

Spain and Portugal are two neighbouring countries, sharing regions with specific socio‐
economic challenges. These challenges arise now as promising sources of regional co …

This paper focuses on the deep transformation of the Portuguese state under democracy
and charts the development of very substantial welfare state. It examines the very substantial …

Integration into the world economy, specialization in low-technology sectors and labour
market rigidity have been singled out as structural features of the Portuguese economy that …

In the context of the euro crisis, several member states of the Eurozone were forced to
implement so-called Economic Adjustment Programmes. The implementation of these …

This paper examines employees' earnings inequality in Portugal for 1986-2017 using data
from the Personnel Records database. Our objective is twofold:(a) characterize earnings …