Pedro S. Martins School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London

• Professor of Applied Economics [On leave]
• Research Fellow, CEG-IST (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon) and IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn)
• PhD in Economics, University of Warwick (Curriculum Vitae)
  
  
• Research: Labour Economics; Matched (Employer-Employee) Data
  
• Email: p.martins "at" qmul.ac.uk.
  
  
• Publications
  Selected papers:
  'Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility'. Economic Inquiry, forthcoming. (Earlier version: IZA DP 3607)
  'Firm-Level Social Returns to Education', with Jim Jin. Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming, 2010.
  'Dismissals for Cause: The Difference that Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make', Journal of Labor Economics, 27(2), 257-279, 2009. (Earlier versions: IZA DP 3112, CGR WP 24, Slides, Media/pdf)
  'Rent Sharing Before and After the Wage Bill'. Applied Economics, 41(17), 2133-2151, 2009.
  'Dispersion in Wage Premiums and Firm Performance'. Economics Letters, 101(1), 63-65, 2008.
  'Heterogeneity in Real Wage Cyclicality'. Scottish Journal of Political Economy (special issue: "Labour contracts and wages over the cycle"), 54(5), 684-698, 2007. (Abstract)
  'Wage Dynamics, Cohort Effects and Limited Commitment Models', with Andy Snell and Jonathan Thomas. Journal of the European Economic Association, P&P, 3(2/3), 350-359, 2005.
  'Industry Wage Dispersion: Evidence from the Wage Distribution'. Economics Letters, 83(2), 157-163, 2004. (Abstract)
  'Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regression Evidence from 16 Countries', with Pedro T. Pereira. Labour Economics, 11(3), 355-371, 2004. (Abstract)
  'Is There A Return-Risk Link in Education?', with Pedro T. Pereira. Economics Letters, 75(1), 31-37, 2002. (Abstract)
  Other papers:
  'Nacionalidade das Empresas e Fluxo de Empregos no Brasil', with Luiz Esteves. Estudos Economicos, forthcoming, 2010.
  'Rent Sharing: A Survey of Methodologies and Results', in "Wage Structures, Employment Adjustments and Globalization: Evidence from Linked and Firm-level Panel Data", editors: D. Marsden and F. Rycx, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, 2009.
  'The Impact of Exporting on Firm Productivity: A Meta-Analysis of the Learning-by-Exporting Hypothesis', with Yong Yang. Review of World Economics, 145(3), 431-445, 2009.
  'Worker Churning and Firms' Wage Policies'. International Journal of Manpower (special issue: "The impact of compensation policies within firms: Evidence from linked employer-employee data"), 29(1), 48-63, 2008.
  'Rent Sharing and Wages'. Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique, 46(2/3), 23-31, 2007.
  'External Hirings and Firm Productivity', with Francisco Lima. Applied Economics Letters, 13(14), 911-915, 2006.
  'Rent Sharing nas Industrias Brasileiras', with Luiz Esteves, in "Tecnologia, Exportação e Emprego", editors: J. DeNegri, F. DeNegri and D. Coelho, IPEA, 2006.
  'The Inter-Industry Wage Structure of US Multinationals'. Economics Bulletin, 10(1), 1-12, 2005. (Abstract)
  'Returns to Education and Wage Equations', with Pedro T. Pereira. Applied Economics, 36(6), 525-531, 2004.
  'Wage Differentials and Wage Spillovers of Foreign Firms'. Bank of Portugal, Conference Proceedings, Lisbon, 2004. (Abstract)
  'Firm Wage Differentials in a Competitive Industry: Some Matched Panel Evidence'. International Journal of Manpower, 24(4), 336-346, 2003. (Abstract)
  'Education and Earnings in Portugal', with Pedro T. Pereira. Bank of Portugal, Conference Proceedings, Lisbon, 2002. (Abstract)
  'Portugal', with Pedro T. Pereira, in "Education and Earnings in Europe", editors: C. Harmon, I. Walker and N. Westergaard-Nielsen, Edward Elgar, 2001.
  

• Working papers:
  'Exports, Imports and Wages: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker-Product Panels', with Luca Opromolla
  'Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal-Treatment Contracting', with Andy Snell and Jonathan Thomas. This version: August 2009. Submitted.
  'Increasing the Legal Retirement Age: The Impact on Wages, Worker Flows and Firm Performance', with Alvaro Novo and Pedro Portugal (Summary (in Portuguese) Boletim Economico, Banco de Portugal, 2007) This version: May 2009. Submitted.
  'Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation'. (IZA DP 4051; Media: DN, JN) This version: March 2009. Under revision.
  'Is Firm Performance Driven by Fairness or Tournaments? Evidence from Brazilian Matched Data', with Luiz Esteves. This version: July 2008. Submitted.
  'Foreign Ownership and Wages in Brazil: Evidence from Acquisitions, Divestments and Job Movers', with Luiz Esteves. (Earlier version: IZA DP 3542) This version: June 2009. Submitted.
  'Is There Rent Sharing in Developing Countries? Matched Panel Evidence from Brazil', with Luiz Esteves (Powerpoint, Earlier version: IZA DP 2317) This version: May 2008. Under revision.
  'Student Achievement and University Classes: Effects of Attendance, Size, Peers, and Teachers', with Ian Walker (Abstract, IZA DP 2490) This version: December 2006. Under revision.
  'Do Foreign Firms Really Pay Higher Wages? Evidence from Different Estimators' (Abstract, Powerpoint,  Summary in Portuguese, Earlier version: IZA DP 1388) Under revision
  

• Work in Progress:
  'Measuring What Employers Really Do About Entry Wages Over the Business Cycle', with Gary Solon and Jonathan Thomas
  'Wage Dynamics and Cohort Effects', with Andy Snell and Jonathan Thomas
  'The Displacement Effects of Employment Protection Legislation'
  'The Diversity of Personnel Practices'
  'International Rent Sharing: Evidence from 50 Countries', with Yong Yang
  

• Links:
  Workshop on the "Empirical Analysis of Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade", CGR, November 11, 2009: Call, Programme
  Centre for Globalisation Research, Queen Mary, University of London
  Blog: Economia das Pessoas [People Economics]
  Researcher ID; IDEAS/RePEc; IZA
  Economics Research Rankings - Portugal
  

Last update: 9 November 2009.