New series of Portuguese population and employment, 1950-2007: implications for GDP per capita and labor productivity Novas séries para a população e o emprego em Portugal, 1950-2007: implicações para o PIB per capita e a produtividade

The two most important international databases with Portuguese GDP per capita and productivity from the 1950s onwards (GGDC and Ameco) offer two contrasting pictures of its evolution, especially during the slowdown of 1973 to the mid-1980s. The main problem is the low quality of the underlying data...

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Main Author: Luciano Amaral
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa 2009-10-01
Series:Análise Social
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.oces.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732009000400006