...: the higher the level of education of the individual, the higher the probability of him/her leaving low pay. Training programs may help employees in Portugal to leave the low-wage situation. Furthermore, policies must address the different mobility rates of different nationalities and different activities...

...Carlota Quintal; Joana Oliveira Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the association between socioeconomic status and child overweight/obesity in Portugal and to evaluate income-related inequalities in its distribution. Design/methodology/approach Data come from the last Portuguese...

...João Sousa Andrade; Adelaide Duarte; Marta C.N. Simões Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the distributions of earnings and education in Portugal in the early years of European integration, 1985 and 1991, a period when Portugal experienced strong nominal convergence following EU...

... model applied to the Portuguese economy in order to identify the determinants of poverty and richness. Poverty Richness Portugal Determinants Income inequality and poverty are well established research fields in economics, including their measurement and the analysis...

...Amélia Bastos; Carla Machado; José Passos Purpose Child poverty has become an important issue in social and political agendas. In Portugal, almost 25 per cent of children are at risk of poverty and the most vulnerable age group. This paper seeks to investigate child poverty in Portugal, using...

... the donated values response to the cyclical component of the local economic cycle in a sample of the vast majority of the municipalities of the North of Portugal (84 municipalities have been studied) over the years 2002, 2003 and 2004, recurring to the most comprehensive database provided by a Portuguese...

...@iseg.utl.pt © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Portugal Non‐profit organizations Chief executives Remuneration Boards of directors Governance The governance of non‐profit organisations (NPOs) is a theme that has come to prominence recently (Birchall and Simmons, 2004 ; Cornforth...