Professor Pedro Martins
Professor of Applied Economics

Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 7472
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3615
Location: Mile End, Francis Bancroft Building, Room 4.25f
Email: p.martins@qmul.ac.uk
Personal homepage: Website
Prof. Martins is on leave until 1st July 2013.

Research interests:

Prof Martins studies wage determination, focusing on some of the multiple factors that influence it: skills, the business cycle, employment regulations and international issues (mostly FDI and trade). A related interest concerns the determinants of employment levels and firm performance. His research is or has been sponsored by a variety of bodies, including the ESRC, European Commission, British Academy, IPEA, and FCT. Prof Martins is also a research fellow of IZA (Bonn) and CEG-IST (Lisbon).

Publications:

Journal Articles:

P. Martins, (2011) 'Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility', Economic Inquiry, 49(2), 349-363.

P.Martins, A Snell, J Thomas (2010) 'Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity in a Model of Equal-Treatment Contracting', Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 112(4), 841-863.

P. Martins, J. Jin, (2010) 'Firm-Level Social Returns to Education', Journal of Population Economics, 23(2), 539-558

P. Martins, (2009) 'Dismissals for Cause: The Difference that Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make', Journal of Labor Economics, 27(2), 257-279

P. Martins, Y. Yang, (2009) 'The Impact of Exporting on Firm Productivity: A Meta-Analysis of the Learning-by-Exporting Hypothesis', Review of World Economics, 145(3), 431-445

P. Martins, (2009) 'Rent Sharing Before and After the Wage Bill', Applied Economics, 41(17), 2133-2151

P. Martins, (2008) 'Dispersion in Wage Premiums and Firm Performance', Economics Letters, 101(1), 63-65

P. Martins, (2007) 'Heterogeneity in Real Wage Cyclicality', Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 54(5), 684-698

P. Martins, A. Snell, J. Thomas, (2005) 'Wage Dynamics, Cohort Effects, and Limited Commitment Models', Journal of the European Economic Association, 3(2/3): 350-359

P. Martins, P. Pereira, (2004) 'Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regression Evidence from 16 Countries', Labour Economics, 11(3): 355-371, ISSN: 0927-5371

P. Martins, (2004) 'Industry Wage Premia: Evidence from the Wage Distribution', Economics Letters, 83(2): 157-163, ISSN: 0165-1765

P. Martins, P. Pereira, (2002) 'Is There a Return-Risk Link in Education?' Economics Letters, 75(1): 31-37, ISSN: 0165-1765

Grants, contracts, awards and external publications:

  • "Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data: Industry Dynamics, Firm Performance, and Worker Outcomes", COST/ESF/European Commission (Coordinator: Professor John Earle), 2008-2010 (€400k)
  • "Competitiveness, Innovation and Intangible Investment in Europe", European Commission (Coordinator: Professor Jonathan Haskel), 2008-2010 (€1.4m)
  • "Cohort effects within firms, and their implications for labour market outcomes and the business cycle", ESRC (Coordinator: Professor Jonathan Thomas), 2008-2011 (£330k).
  • "Temporary Contracts and Economic Performance", FCT, 2010-2012 (€28k)
  • "Entrepreneurial Exit and Organisation Performance", FCT (Coordinator: Professor Miguel Amaral), 2010-2013 (€75k)
  • Improving Achievement through Targeted, Non-Cognitive Skills: Evidence from the EPIS Program. Bank of Portugal Conference Proceedings, 2010
  • Bank of Portugal award, 2010 Conference on Economic Development, €5,000
  • Measuring What Employers Really Do About Entry Wages Over the Business Cycle (with Gary Solon and Jonathan Thomas), NBER WP 15767

Undergraduate teaching:

Courses delivered:
BUS208: Microeconomics for Managers

Postgraduate teaching:

Courses delivered:
BUSM014: Quantitative Research Methods