Pedro S. Martins

Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management

Professor

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London, E1 4NS

United Kingdom

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IZA Institute of Labor Economics

P.O. Box 7240

Bonn, D-53072

Germany

New University of Lisbon

Lisbon, 1099-085

Portugal

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1.

Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

IZA Discussion Paper No. 120, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Economia, FEUNL Working Paper Series No. 379
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 10 Sep 2000
Pedro Telhado Pereira and Pedro S. Martins
Universidade da Madeira - Gestao e Economica and Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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Student Achievement and University Classes: Effects of Attendance, Size, Peers, and Teachers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2490
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Jan 2007
Pedro S. Martins and Ian Walker
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management and University of Warwick - Department of Economics
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education production functions, attendance, class size, peer effects

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Returns to Education and Wage Equations

IZA Discussion Paper No. 298
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 11 Jun 2001
Pedro Telhado Pereira and Pedro S. Martins
Universidade da Madeira - Gestao e Economica and Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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Human Capital, Rate of Return, Educational Economics

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Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4051
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 17 Mar 2009
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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performance-related pay, public sector, matched school-student data

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Increasing the Legal Retirement Age: The Impact on Wages, Worker Flows and Firm Performance

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4187
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Jun 2009
Pedro S. Martins, Álvaro A. Novo and Pedro Portugal
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management, Bank of Portugal and Bank of Portugal - Research Department
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social security reform, older workers, matching estimators

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Is There a Return - Risk Link in Education?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 321
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Jul 2001
Pedro Telhado Pereira and Pedro S. Martins
Universidade da Madeira - Gestao e Economica and Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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Returns to Education, Risk, Quantile Regression

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Do Foreign Firms Really Pay Higher Wages? Evidence from Different Estimators

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1388
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Nov 2004
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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FDI, wages, matched employer-employee data, propensity score matching, Portugal

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Cronyism

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5349
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Dec 2010
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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corruption, matched employer-employee panel data, public-sector employment

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Can Targeted, Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Achievement? Evidence from Epis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5266
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Oct 2010
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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student achievement, program evaluation, matched school-student data

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30,000 Minimum Wages: The Economic Effects of Collective Bargaining Extensions

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8540
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 25 Oct 2014
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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collective agreements, worker flows, wage rigidity

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Exports, Imports and Wages: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker-Product Panels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4646
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 22 Dec 2009
Pedro S. Martins and Luca David Opromolla
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management and Bank of Portugal
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globalisation and labour, transaction data, wage differentials

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Foreign Ownership, Employment and Wages in Brazil: Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3542
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Jun 2008
Pedro S. Martins and Luiz Alberto Esteves
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management and University of Siena
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foreign direct investment, ownership changes, worker mobility

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Is There Rent Sharing in Developing Countries? Matched-Panel Evidence from Brazil

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2317
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Oct 2006
Pedro S. Martins and Luiz Alberto Esteves
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management and University of Siena
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wage bargaining, instrumental variables, matched employer-employee data, developing countries

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Firm-Level Social Returns to Education

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1382
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 05 Nov 2004
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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education, spillovers, matched employer-employee data, wages, endogenous growth

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Heterogeneity in Real Wage Cyclicality

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Heterogeneity in Real Wage Cyclicality

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 54, Issue 5, pp. 684-698, November 2007
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 05 Nov 2007
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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Heterogeneity in Real Wage Cyclicality

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2929
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Jul 2007
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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matched employer-employee data, worker mobility, wage rigidity

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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis

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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Nov 2010
Alexander Hijzen, Pedro S. Martins, Richard Upward and Thorsten Schank
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management, University of Nottingham - School of Economics and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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Foreign direct investment, foreign wage premia

Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5259
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Oct 2010
Alexander Hijzen, Pedro S. Martins, Thorsten Schank and Richard Upward
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and University of Nottingham - School of Economics
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foreign direct investment, foreign wage premia

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Rent Sharing Before and after the Wage Bill

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1376
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 03 Nov 2004
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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rent sharing, instrumental variables, matched employer-employee data, fixed effects

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Dismissals for Cause: The Difference that Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3112
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 Nov 2007
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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employment protection legislation, worker flows, wages, firm performance

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Measuring What Employers Really Do About Entry Wages Over the Business Cycle

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Measuring What Employers Really Do About Entry Wages Over the Business Cycle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4757
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Feb 2010
Pedro S. Martins, Gary Solon and Jonathan Thomas
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management, University of Arizona and University of Edinburgh - Economics
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real wage cyclicality, entry wages, matched employer-employee data

Measuring What Employers Really Do About Entry Wages Over the Business Cycle

NBER Working Paper No. w15767
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2010
Pedro S. Martins, Gary Solon and Jonathan Thomas
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management, University of Arizona and University of Edinburgh - Economics
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Reemployment and Substitution Effects from Increased Activation: Evidence from Times of Crisis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8600
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 08 Nov 2014
Pedro S. Martins and Sofia Pessoa e Costa
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
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public employment services, job search, public policy evaluation

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Why Ex(Im)Porters Pay More: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6013
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Oct 2011
Pedro S. Martins and Luca David Opromolla
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management and Bank of Portugal
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globalization, export, import, wage differentials

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Can Overtime Premium Flexibility Promote Employment? Firm- and Worker-Level Evidence from a Labour Law Reform

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10205
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Sep 2016
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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working time, wage rigidity, employment resilience, labour reforms

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Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility

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Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3607
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Aug 2008
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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foreign direct investment, worker displacement, wage growth

Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages, and Worker Mobility

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 349-363, 2011
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Mar 2011
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? Evidence from Matched Panel Data

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6644
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 Jun 2012
Pedro S. Martins, Matloob Piracha and José Varejão
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management, University of Kent - Department of Economics and Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Economia (FEP)
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matched employer-employee data, displacement, immigrants

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Minu, Startu and All that: Pitfalls in Estimating the Sensitivity of a Worker's Wage to Aggregate Unemployment

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5503
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 Feb 2011
Pedro S. Martins, Andy Snell and Jonathan Thomas
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management, University of Edinburgh - Economics and University of Edinburgh - Economics
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wage cyclicality, unemployment

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Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing Across 47 Countries

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5283
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Nov 2010
Pedro S. Martins and Yong Yang
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management and University of Essex
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multinationals, profit sharing, wage determination

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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal-Treatment Contracting

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4346
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Aug 2009
Pedro S. Martins, Andy Snell and Jonathan Thomas
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management, University of Edinburgh - Economics and University of Edinburgh - Economics
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labour contracts, business cycle, unemployment, equal treatment, downward rigidity, cross-contract restrictions

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Collective Bargaining Through the Magnifying Glass: A Comparison between the Netherlands and Portugal

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Collective Bargaining Through the Magnifying Glass: A Comparison between the Netherlands and Portugal

IMF Working Paper No. 17/275
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Jan 2018
Alexander Hijzen, Pedro S. Martins and Jante Parlevliet
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management and De Nederlandsche Bank
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Netherlands, Portugal, Employment, Europe, Industrial relations, social dialogue, General, Comparative Studies of Particular Economies

Collective Bargaining Through the Magnifying Glass: A Comparison between the Netherlands and Portugal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11113
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Nov 2017
Alexander Hijzen, Pedro S. Martins and Jante Parlevliet
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management and De Nederlandsche Bank
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industrial relations, social dialogue, employment

Collective Bargaining Through the Magnifying Glass: A Comparison Between the Netherlands and Portugal

De Nederlandsche Bank Working Paper No. 576
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Nov 2017
Alexander Hijzen, Pedro S. Martins and Jante Parlevliet
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management and De Nederlandsche Bank
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Industrial Relations, Social Dialogue, Employment

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No Extension Without Representation? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Collective Bargaining

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No Extension Without Representation? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Collective Bargaining

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10204
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Sep 2016
Alexander Hijzen and Pedro S. Martins
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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collective bargaining, industrial relations, employer associations, wage setting, employment

No Extension Without Representation? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Collective Bargaining

IMF Working Paper No. 16/143
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Dec 2016
Alexander Hijzen and Pedro S. Martins
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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Wages and employment, Portugal, Wage bargaining, Wage increases, Labor market reforms, collective bargaining, industrial relations, employer associations, wage setting, employment

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Bias in Returns to Tenure When Firm Wages and Employment Comove: A Quantitative Assessment and Solution

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9849
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 Apr 2016
Pedro S. Martins, Andy Snell, Heiko Stueber and Jonathan Thomas
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management, University of Edinburgh - Economics, Government of the Federal Republic of Germany - Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and University of Edinburgh - Economics
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matched data, tenure effects, Germany, Portugal

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Should the Maximum Duration of Fixed-Term Contracts Increase in Recessions? Evidence from a Law Reform

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10206
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Sep 2016
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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employment law, worker mobility, segmentation, counterfactual evaluation

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The Third Worker: Assessing the Trade-Off between Employees and Contractors

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10222
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Oct 2016
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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employment law, segmentation, duality, future of work

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The Effect of Self-Employment on Health: Evidence from Longitudinal Social Security Data

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11305
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Feb 2018
Judite Goncalves and Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary University of London and Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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self-employment, hospitalization, sick leave, mortality

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Working to Get Fired? Regression Discontinuity Effects of Unemployment Benefit Eligibility on Prior Employment Duration

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10262
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Oct 2016
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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unemployment insurance, moral hazard, employment duration, big data

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The Diversity of Personnel Practices and Firm Performance

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10289
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 31 Oct 2016
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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personnel economics, job levels, wages, big data

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Collateral Damage? Labour Market Effects of Competing with China – At Home and Abroad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11790
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 17 Sep 2018
Sonia Cabral, Pedro S. Martins, João Pereira dos Santos and Mariana Tavares
Banco de Portugal, Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management, New University of Lisbon - Nova School of Business and Economics and Maastricht University
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international trade, labour market, matched employer-employee data, China, import competition

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Downward Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal Treatment Contracting

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Downward Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal Treatment Contracting

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 112, Issue 4, pp. 841-863, 2010
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Dec 2010
Pedro S. Martins, Andy Snell and Jonathan P. Thomas
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management, University of Edinburgh - Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Labour contracts, business cycle, unemployment, equal treatment, downward rigidity, cross?contract restrictions, E32, J41

Downward Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal Treatment Contracting

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 112, Issue 4, pp. 841-863, December 2010
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 Nov 2010
Pedro S. Martins, Andy Snell and Jonathan P. Thomas
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management, University of Edinburgh - Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Rent Sharing in China: Magnitude, Heterogeneity and Drivers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12169
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 21 May 2019
Wenjing Duan and Pedro S. Martins
Hunan University and Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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wages, bargaining, monopsony

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(How) Do Non-Cognitive Skills Programs Improve Adolescent School Achievement? Experimental Evidence

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10950
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 31 Aug 2017
Pedro S. Martins
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management
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student achievement, non-cognitive skills, RCT, gender

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Globalized Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing Across 47 Countries

British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 53, Issue 4, pp. 664-691, 2015
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 18 Nov 2015
Pedro S. Martins and Yong Yang
Queen Mary College - School of Business and Management and University of Sussex - School of Business, Management and Economics
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