CEP | People | Hugo Vilares

Biography

Hugo is an Assistant Professor at University of Porto and a Guest Teacher at Department of Management of LSE. He completed the PhD in Economics at LSE (2021). Currently, he serves as the Principal Economic Advisor of the Portuguese Prime-Minister, and Portuguese Single Market Sherpa.

Current areas of research include:

The institutional framework of the market and its influence on labour market outcomes and dynamics.
The impact of labour market policies in shaping labour market outcomes.
How wages are defined.
Drivers of Housing Prices.
How transport innovations impact property values.

Publications

Journal article

Can more housing supply improve affordability? A subnational perspective from Portugal

We investigate the impact of housing supply on affordability in rapidly appreciating subnational markets in Portugal. Our spatial econometric model confirms a negative relation between housing stock and prices, yet predi... Read more...

Luis Carvalho, Diogo Ribeiro and Hugo de Almeida Vilares

10 December 2025

Journal article

Union membership density and wages: the role of worker, firm, and job-title heterogeneity

We examine the association between union density and wages in Portugal where just 10 percent of all workers are union members but nine-tenths of them are covered by collective agreements. Using a unique dataset on worker... Read more...

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal and Hugo Vilares

01 April 2023

CEP discussion papers

Who's got the power? Wage determination and its resilience in the Great Recession

Whereas wage inequality has risen markedly in most OECD countries in recent decades, it has fallen in several Southern European economies. To shed light on this phenomenon, we embed sectoral bargaining, which is common i... Read more...

Hugo Reis and Hugo de Almeida Vilares

17 November 2022

Journal article

Unions and collective bargaining in the wake of the great recession: evidence from Portugal

Against the backdrop of its industrial relations architecture, characteristic of the `southern European group? and intimately linked to the recommendations of the Troika, this paper examines four key aspects of Portugues... Read more...

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal and Hugo Vilares

01 September 2017