Priscila Ferreira is Associate Professor with Habilitation in Economics at the University of Minho, Portugal. She is a labour economist and her current research focusses on the effects of economic crises and of firm-entry deregulation on labour market outcomes.
She is member of the Working Group on Labour Market Statistics (Superior Council of Statistics), and research affiliate at Centre for Research in Economics and Management.
In 2018 she was awarded the Prize "Competition in Markets" by the Portuguese Ministry of Economics and Associação Mutualista Montepio; in 2019 she won the Prize for the best paper of the Department of Economics; she also received Honourable Mentions in the 2019 and 2020 António Dornelas Prizes awarded by the Portuguese Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security.
She has published in journals such as the Journal of Human Resources, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, British Journal of Management, International Journal of Industrial Organization, amongst others.
labour economics (wages; firm behaviour; gender inequalities)
applied microeconomics
applied microeconometrics (panel data; survival analysis)
linked employer-employee data
Selected publications
Fernandes, A. P., & Ferreira, P. (2021). Executives’ gender pay gap and financing constraints. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 192, 381–404. DOI
Cooke, D., Fernandes, A. P., & Ferreira, P. (2019). Product market competition and gender discrimination. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 157, 496–522. DOI
Ferreira, P., Fernandes, A. P., & Winters, L. A. (2018). The effect of competition on executive compensation and incentives: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment. Journal of Human Resources, 53(3), 783–824. DOI
Fernandes, A. P., & Ferreira, P. (2017). Financing constraints and fixed-term employment: Evidence from the 2008-9 financial crisis. European Economic Review, 92, 215–238. DOI
Fernandes, A. P., Ferreira, P., & Winters, L. A. (2014). Firm entry deregulation, competition and returns to education and skill. European Economic Review, 70, 210–230. DOI
Other publications
Saridakis, G., Ferreira, P., Mohammed, A. M., & Marlow, S. (2022). The Relationship Between Gender and Promotion Over the Business Cycle: Does Firm Size Matter? British Journal of Management, 33(2), 806–827. DOI
Cooke, D., Fernandes, A. P., & Ferreira, P. (2021). Entry deregulation, firm organization, and wage inequality. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 77, 102763. DOI
Correia, I., Ferreira, P., Pinto, L., Valente, M., & Veiga, P. (2021). Ageing (un)equally and (un)healthily: On the health status of Portuguese people aged 50+. Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 20(1-2), 45–64. DOI
Fernandes, A. P., & Ferreira, P. (2021). Executives’ gender pay gap and financing constraints. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 192, 381–404. DOI
Ferreira, P. (2020). As time goes by: survival analysis as a method to study topics in entrepreneurship . In G. Saridakis & M. Cowling (Eds.), Handbook of Quantitative Research Methods in Entrepreneurship (1st ed., pp. 48–61). Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar. DOI
Cooke, D., Fernandes, A. P., & Ferreira, P. (2019). Product market competition and gender discrimination. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 157, 496–522. DOI
Ferreira, P. (2019). Market Competition and Executive Pay. IZA World of Labor, 115(v2). DOI
Ferreira, P., Fernandes, A. P., & Winters, L. A. (2018). The effect of competition on executive compensation and incentives: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment. Journal of Human Resources, 53(3), 783–824. DOI
Fernandes, A. P., & Ferreira, P. (2017). Financing constraints and fixed-term employment: Evidence from the 2008-9 financial crisis. European Economic Review, 92, 215–238. DOI
Ferreira, P., & Saridakis, G. (2017). Firm Shutdown During the Financial and the Sovereign Debt Crises: Empirical Evidence from Portugal. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 24(2), 153–179 . DOI
Ferreira, P. (2016). Employment, turnover and career progress. In G. Saridakis & C. L. Cooper (Eds.), Research Handbook on Employee Turnover (1st ed., pp. 274–304). Cheltenham, U.K: Edward Elgar. DOI
Ferreira, P. (2015). Market competition and executive pay. IZA World of Labor, Janeiro(115), 1–10. DOI
Fernandes, A. P., Ferreira, P., & Winters, L. A. (2014). Firm entry deregulation, competition and returns to education and skill. European Economic Review, 70, 210–230. DOI
Ferreira, P., & Taylor, M. P. (2011). Measuring match quality using subjective data. Economics Letters, 113(3), 304–306. DOI
Cardoso, A. R., & Ferreira, P. (2009). The dynamics of job creation and destruction for university graduates: Why a rising unemployment rate can be misleading. Applied Economics, 41(19), 2513–2521. DOI
Ferreira, P., & Taylor, M. P. (2008). Residential mobility, mobility preferences and psychological health . In M. Brynin & J. Ermisch (Eds.), Changing Relationships (pp. 161–179). Routledge. DOI
Ferreira, P. (2007). Promoção no interior das empresas em Portugal: quais os postos de trabalho com maior propensão para a promoção? In A. O. das Neves (Ed.), Quadros de Pessoal e Investigação em Economia (Vol. IX, pp. 93–102). Ministério do Trabalho e da Segurança Social, Gabinete de Estratégia e Planeamento (MTSS/GEP). DOI
Cardoso, A. R., Sousa, R., Castro, V., & Ferreira, P. (2000). Perfil do trabalhador e da empresa de baixos salários em Portugal. Economia, 24(Jan.-Maio-Out.), 53–66. DOI
Calculus for Economics and Management
Bachelor
Sustainable Development and Digital Transformation
Master
Labour Economics
Bachelor
Political Economics
Bachelor
Research Methodology and Proposal in Economics
Master
Topics in Advanced in Labour Economics
Doctorate
