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Pedro Portugal is an invited professor of economics at Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, within the Business & Economics faculty. He earned his degree in Economics from the Universidade do Porto in 1982, a PhD in Economics from the University of South Carolina in 1991, and an Agregação from the Universidade do Porto in 1999. Pedro Portugal currently serves as a senior researcher at the Bank of Portugal, where he has held this position for many years. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Conselho Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia, and since 2004, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

His primary research focus is applied labor economics, encompassing the microeconomics of unemployment, unemployment compensation, wage bargaining, job security, and worker displacement. He has also made contributions to industrial economics and strategic management. Pedro Portugal has an extensive publication record in top-tier economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Economic Policy, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Labour Economics, and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. Key publications include "Union membership density and wages: The role of worker, firm, and job-title heterogeneity" with John T. Addison and Hugo de Almeida Vilares (Journal of Econometrics, 2023), "The persistence of wages" with Anabela Carneiro, Pedro Raposo, and Paulo M.M. Rodrigues (Journal of Econometrics, 2023), "Why do firms use fixed-term contracts?" with José Varejão (Portuguese Economic Journal, 2022), "The sources of the wage losses of displaced workers: The role of the reallocation of workers into firms, matches, and job titles" with Pedro Raposo and Anabela Carneiro (Journal of Human Resources, 2021), and "Real Wages and the business cycle: Accounting for worker, firm, and job title heterogeneity" with Anabela Carneiro and Paulo Guimarães (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012). His research has influenced understanding of labor market dynamics, particularly in the context of economic crises and policy reforms.