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

• Professor of Applied Economics
• 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, 23(2), 539–558, 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, 2010.
  '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:
  'Improving Student Achievement Through Targeted Support: An Evaluation of the EPIS Program'
  'Measuring What Employers Really Do About Entry Wages Over the Business Cycle', with Gary Solon and Jonathan Thomas. (NBER WP 15767; IZA DP 4757) This version: February 2010. Submitted.
  'Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation'. (Earlier version: IZA DP 4051; Media: Economist, Atlantic, NCTQ, DN, JN) This version: December 2009. Submitted.
  'Exports, Imports and Wages: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker-Product Panels', with Luca Opromolla. This version: December 2009. Submitted.
  '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. Under revision.
  'Firm Performance and the Geography of FDI: Evidence from 46 Countries', with Yong Yang. This version: Jan 2010. Submitted.
  'Is Firm Performance Driven by Fairness or Tournaments? Evidence from Brazilian Matched Data', with Luiz Esteves. This version: July 2008. Under revision.
  '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. Under revision.
  '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)
  

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  Blog: Economia das Pessoas [People Economics]
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Last update: 12 March 2010.