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Circular economy in the construction sector : a case study
Martins, Beatriz; Lopes, João Carlos; Mendes, Isabel MendesO problema das alterações climáticas tem ganho relevância ao longo dos últimos anos devido aos seus efeitos nocivos na atmosfera e ecossistemas. Cada vez mais, organismos governamentais e não governamentais têm tomado importantes medidas no combate a este fenómeno, designadamente a União Europeia, que com o Pacto Ecológico Europeu pretende tornar a Europa no primeiro continente com impacto neutro no clima. Para...
Circular economy in the construction sector: a case study
Martins, Beatriz; Lopes, João Carlos; Mendes, IsabelO problema das alterações climáticas tem ganho relevância ao longo dos últimos anos devido aos seus efeitos nocivos na atmosfera e ecossistemas. Cada vez mais, organismos governamentais e não governamentais têm tomado importantes medidas no combate a este fenómeno, designadamente a União Europeia, que com o Pacto Ecológico Europeu pretende tornar a Europa no primeiro continente com impacto neutro no clima. Para...
Global value chains, value-added generation and structural change in EU core an...
Domingues, Tiago; Amaral, João Ferreira do; Lopes, João CarlosBackward and forward integration are growing in most sectors across the European Union (EU). To benefit from this increasing participation in Global Value Chains (GVC), the increase in imports, namely of intermediate inputs, should be followed by adequate growth in exports. The external dependency of many industries and the corresponding low domestic value-added generated in production, combined with relatively...
Despovoamento, desenvolvimento rural e apego à terra : o caso de uma pequena al...
Lopes, João Carlos; Barros, VictorNeste documento de trabalho apresenta-se um estudo de caso de uma pequena aldeia transmontana, do distrito de Bragança, através de uma perspetiva multidisciplinar, envolvendo, entre outras, as dimensões demográfica, económica, social, cultural e religiosa. Trata-se de um núcleo populacional em acelerado processo de despovoamento, iniciado com o fluxo migratório dos anos sessenta, sobretudo para o Brasil, e, nos...
Germany as a role model for structural adjustment of peripheral Eurozone econom...
Silva, Marta; Lopes, João CarlosThis paper aims at analyzing the structural changes that occurred in the Portuguese economy after the 2010/2013 sovereign debt crisis, compared with what occurred in Germany and using the current debate surrounding the new reform of the Eurozone as a backdrop. We thus intend to find out whether a peripheral southern economy like Portugal and the Eurozone’s nuclear economy (Germany) have become closer and, if so...
Young farmers as innovation enablers in rural areas : the role of the EU’s supp...
Guerra, Ana Isabel; Lopes, João CarlosThe European Union has suggested several approaches to decrease regional asymmetries and develop rural areas around member states. The main purpose of this paper is to study one of these policies, the Young Farmers Program, in a rural and peripheric region of Portugal, Trás-os-Montes. Since severe depopulation and ageing are some of this region’s biggest threats, initiatives like the Young Farmers Program might...
Labour productivity, wages and the functional distribution of income in Portuga...
Lopes, João Carlos; Coelho, José Carlos; Escária, VítorThe main purpose of this paper is to study the functional distribution of income in Portugal in the long run, considering the period between 1953 and 2017. The labour share in income or value added depends on two fundamental variables, the labour productivity and the average labour compensation. The trends of these variables are quantified, for the aggregate economy and for its main productive sectors. An inter...
Cluster and business performance: Historical evidence from the Portuguese cork ...
Branco, Amélia; Lopes, João CarlosThis paper analyses the relative performance of clustered and non-clustered companies during the different phases of the cluster life cycle. It starts by explaining the location of most of the Portuguese cork manufacturing companies in Santa Maria da Feira, a small county in the north of the country, whereas the bulk of cork is produced in the South. The historical roots of the Feira cluster are examined, as we...
From a portuguese small firm to world leader in the cork business : the role of...
Branco, Amélia; Lopes, João Carlos; Rangel, José Francisco; Parejo, Francisco ManuelThis paper analysed the strategy of Corticeira Amorim, in many ways confused with the story of the Amorim family, since the first generation started a small workshop producing cork stoppers, in the 19th century, until it became a big multinational, present in 70 countries. In the first phases of the business, internal advantages were dominant, namely the lower wages in the North of Portugal (Santa Maria da Feir...
Economics education: literacy or mind framing? Evidence from a survey on the so...
Graça, João Carlos; Lopes, João Carlos; Gomes Correia, RitaDoes studying economics have an effect on molding the values and attitudes embodying the trust-building processes of a democratic society? Mainstream economics teaching, based on the self-interest model of rational, maximizing, individualistic “representative agent”, may well cause indoctrinating effects, creating or reinforcing political free-marketeering, as well as selfishness values, attitudes, and behavior...