CEP | People | Hugo Vilares

Biography

Dr Hugo is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Porto. Before joining the University of Porto he completed a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics.

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.
Workers' worth in the market.
Impact of technological change in the labour market

Publications

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 - forthcoming

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

10 January 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