“Trust in state capacity and support for redistribution"
Bernard, A., Morgandi, M., Levin, V., Silva, J. (2021)
PROSPER develops regular studies and reports on the topics it explores. The research center also promotes webinars and other talks devoted to disseminating its research. You can find some of this work below.
The "Who Will Bear the Costs of COVID-19? Analysis of Jobs at Risk in Portugal" report provides a comprehensive assessment of the extent to which different jobs are vulnerable, in economic terms, to the crisis associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. Its three main objectives are to: (i) offer empirical evidence on the share of total employment in the most affected sectors and the size of the overall employment effects of the reduction in output in these sectors; (ii) evaluate which and how many jobs are most at risk (in the short and medium term), using four measures of exposure/ vulnerability: jobs that cannot be done at home, jobs that require intensive face-to-face interaction, jobs that are not deemed essential, and jobs that are more amenable to automation; and (iii) assess how the potential employment effects differ across workers within the country and contrast the policy response with the labor market dimension of the crisis.
Below, you can view a presentation of this report in Portuguese by Joana Silva, Director of PROSPER, with comment from the President of the National Institute for Statistics of Portugal (INE), Francisco Lima.
PROSPER has produced the following papers that will be presented at international conferences and seminars and were (or will be in 2021) submitted to peer review journals.
Academic Papers
“The Effect of Firm Heterogeneity on Earnings Inequality Dynamics"
Silva, J., Espiga, F. (2021)
“In or Out? Crowding Effects in Public Goods with Private Gifts: Evidence from Crowdfunding”
Bernard, A., Gazel, M. (2021)
“Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America"
Silva, J. and Messina, J. (2020)
“Changes in the minimum wage: Distributional effects in good and in bad times”
Silva, J., Teixeira, T. (2021)
"The Effects of Welfare Programs on Formal Labor Markets: Evidence from Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil"
Gerard, F., Naritomi, J., Silva, J., T. (2021)
Technical Reports
"Who Will Bear the Costs of the Covid 19 Crisis? Analysis of Jobs at Risk in Portugal"
Silva, J., Gaspar, M., Fernandes, P., Kouhen, K. And Leitao, M. (2020)
“The Impact of Covid-19 on Poverty and Inequality in Portugal and the Cushioning Effect of Policies”
Silva, J., Bernard, A., Espiga, F. , Gaspar, M. (2021)
PROSPER turned one year old in 2021, and produced a report outlining its progress and initiatives during its first year of work.