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Functional income distribution and sluggish growth in Europe: The post-Keynesia...
Alcobia, J.; Barradas, R.In the last four decades, policymakers in the more developed countries have privileged the adoption of wage restraint policies to sustain economic growth. During that time, the wage share has registered a sustained fall, and economic growth has been rather dismal, which seems to support the theoretical claims of post-Keynesian economics that wage restraint policies are detrimental to economic growth because the...
Financialisation and the (de-)unionisation of workers in Portugal
Barradas, R.Over the last five decades, the degree of unionisation of workers has been decreasing and, therefore, by inadvertently accepting the deterioration of labour relations, the loss of labour rights, and the increase in the exploitation of labour all over the world, workers have not genuinely contested the neoliberal agenda and the deregulation and flexibilisation of the labour market. Our argument to explain this p...
Financialisation, indebted workers and labour discipline: Empirical evidence on...
Barradas, R.Workers are being denoted by higher resignation and conformism and lesser claimant behaviour due to their lesser engagement in strikes, which indeliberately accepts the significant deterioration of labour conditions, a loss of labour rights and an increase in labour exploitation all over the world in the last five decades. Our argument to explain this puzzling paradox of worsening labour conditions yet less str...
Determinants of the Portuguese external imbalances: The lens of post-Keynesian ...
Barradas, R.; Alcobia, J.Portugal has historically displayed strong external imbalances, which have already resulted in three requests for international financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and/or the European Central Bank. Stemming from the framework of mainstream economics literature, these institutions imposed demanding austerity measures based on internal devaluation, huge wage restrain...
Why does the nexus between finance and income inequality break in times of fina...
Barradas, R.Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the current debate between the mainstream and the non-mainstream literature on the effect of the growth of finance on the level of income inequality, for which the empirical evidence has also been providing mixed results. Design/methodology/approach We estimate a linear model and a non-linear model by employing a panel autoregressive distributed lag approach and relying ...
Why are (financialised) workers becoming more resigned and conformist and less ...
Barradas, R.The deregulation and flexibilisation of labour relations has been on the active neoliberal agenda of policymakers all over the world, including in Portugal. Against this backdrop, labour conditions have been worsening since the 1970s and 1980s, and workers have progressively lost some labour rights, which is noticeable in stagnant (or falling) wages, the rise of personal income inequalities, the proliferation o...
Mercado de trabalho e bem-estar após a grande recessão: Dificuldades e desafios...
Suleman, F.; Barradas, R.Este capítulo procura evidenciar fenómenos persistentes no mercado de trabalho de jovens e o modo como esses problemas afetam diversas dimensões da vida pessoal dos jovens em Portugal. É sabido que o emprego jovem é fortemente afetado pelas condições económicas e as épocas recessivas tendem a ter maiores impactos na transição dos jovens para o mercado de trabalho (Kahn, 2010). As consequências da designada Gran...
Inquérito aos jovens sobre o mercado de trabalho e a segurança social em Portug...
Tavares, I.; Assis, R. V.; Barradas, R.; Carmo, R. M.; Suleman, F.Para o presente livro foi elaborado um inquérito por questionário cujo instrumento para a recolha da informação empírica considerou um conjunto de perguntas sobre o mercado de trabalho e as perceções acerca do sistema de Segurança Social, além de questões necessárias para a obtenção do perfil sociodemográfico dos inquiridos. A aplicação do questionário decorreu online entre os dias 12 de dezembro de 2022 e 29 d...
Pluriatividade enquanto resposta dos jovens à vulnerabilidade no mercado de tra...
Barradas, R.; Suleman, F.Neste capítulo, pretendemos caracterizar os jovens que detêm mais do que um emprego e analisar os determinantes da pluriatividade em Portugal. O tema não foi ainda devidamente tratado como objeto de estudo, por isso esta pesquisa representa o primeiro trabalho focado exclusivamente no caso dos jovens portugueses, para o qual a evidência empírica é relativamente inexistente. Portugal representa um caso de estudo...
The finance–inequality nexus in the era of financialisation: Evidence for Portugal
Barradas, R.; Lakhani, R.Since the 1980s, Portuguese policy makers have engaged in a strong process of liberalization, deregulation and privatization of the financial system to adhere to the rules imposed by the European Economic Community and to promote financial growth, boost economic growth and reduce inequality. However, the Portuguese economic growth has exhibited a weaker performance and inequality has continued to widen in the l...