The main goals of the Center are: The main goals of the Center are

The main goals of the Center are:

• The main goals of the Center are:

• - to develop the research in areas as Labour Economics, Regional Economics, Public Economics, Economic History, Business and Corporate Finance, among others.

• - to support Ph. D. and Master candidates as well as researchers from European and National projects.

- to study the reality of the ultraperipheral regions.

• - to study the reality of the ultraperipheral regions.

• - to host post-doc researchers and scholars.

• - to organize conferences in both Institutions.

The researchers from Madeira and Azores have a long standing tradition of cooperation in research, shown in:

• The researchers from Madeira and Azores have a long standing tradition of cooperation in research, shown in:

• Joint publications in journals like Applied Economics, Empirica, Portuguese Economic Journal.

Joint projects as

• Joint projects as

• "Mercado de Trabalho em Portugal: Emprego, Desemprego e Demografia", financed by PRAXIS XXI, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia 1997-2000 - 2/2.1/CSH/781/95.

• "Da Escola ao Trabalho: Análise da Educação, Emprego e Salários em Portugal", financed by SAPIENS 99, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, 2000-2003, Contrato POCTI/ECO/33089/1999.

• “Estudo da Avaliação das Medidas Adoptadas pela União Europeia para Aplicação do nº 2 do Artigo 299 do Tratado que Institui a Comunidade Europeia – nas Regiões Autónomas dos Açores e Madeira”, 2003, Secretaria Regionald a Presidência opara as Finanças e Planeamento do Governo Regional dos Açores

Joint projects as (cont.)

• Joint projects as (cont.)

• MOVIECAM -Analysing Mobility in the Atlantic Area of Madeira, Azores and Canary Islands - Financed by European Union/Interreg

• B@N - Business Atlantic Network - Financed by Reuropean Union/Interreg IIIB

Other publications from our staff in:

• Other publications from our staff in:

• Labour Economics

• Economic Letters

• International Migration Review

• Journal of International Migration and Integration

• Labour

• European Journal of Education

• International Regional Science Review

• Journal of Economics

• …

Other current projects:

• Other current projects:

• "Education and Wage Inequality in Europe",  coordinated by The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy and financed by the European Commission, HPSE-CT-2002-00108.

• “O Abandono Escolar em Portugal” – financed by the Fundação Gulbenkian.

• “Efeitos do RMG no Mercado de Trabalho” Financed by: FCT (POCTI/ECO/43307/2001)

• “Mobilidade de Emprego e Mobilidade Salarial na Economia Portuguesa” Financed by FCT (POCTI/ECO/37668/2001)

• “A Prototype Model of the Azorean Economy” financed by US government

Consulting Council

• Consulting Council

• Daniel Hamermesh (University of Texas, Department of Economics)

• Joop Hartog (University of Amsterdam, Department of Economics)

• Ian Walker (University of Warwick, Department of Economics )

• Donald Parsons (George Washington University, Department of Economics)

• Rita Asplund (The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, ETLA)

• Jaime Reis (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisboa)

• Geoffrey Jones (University of Reading, Department of Economics)

• Victor Gonçalves (Univ. Técnica de Lisboa, ISEG, Dep. de Gestão)

• Josep Oliver-Alonso (Universidade Autónoma de Barcelona, Dep. de Economia)

• Klaus F. Zimmermann (University of Bonn, IZA)

• Robert E. Wright (University of Stirling, Department of Economics)

• Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (University of Linz)

• Francis Kramarz (CREST-INSEE, Paris)

• José Pedro Portugal Dias, (Banco de Portugal, Lisboa)

• Richard Arnott (Boston College, Department of Economics)

Pos- Graduation Education:

• Mestrado em Gestão Estratégica e Desenvolvimento do Turismo

• Coordenador: Carlos Santos e Pedro Telhado Pereira

• Mestrado em Gestão Pública

• Coordenador: José Cabral Vieira
• Algumas Teses
• RMG – José Francisco V. Magalhães Sousa “Factores de Permanência no RMG: Um teste para os Açores (defendida). Orientadores: Mário Fortuna, José Cabral Vieira
• RMG – Sandra Dias Faria “Efeitos de Programas de Apoio ao Rendimento no Mercado de Trabalho: O caso dos Açores”(em preparação). Orientadores: Mário Fortuna, José Cabral Vieira

• Mestrado em Gestão (MBA)

• Coordenador: João Pedro Couto

Other activities:

• Workshop sobre Labour Economics, 23 de Junho de 2001. Participantes: Pedro Telhado Pereira (UMa); António Gomes de Menezes (UA), José Cabral Vieira (UA), Francisco Lima (U.Warwick), Ian Walker (U. Warwick), Pedro Martins (Banco de Pportugal), Joop Hartog (University of Amsterdam).

• RMG – Workshop nacional sobre “Programas de Apoio ao Rendimento: O Caso Português”, 1 de Março de 2003. Participantes: Mário Fortuna (UA), José António Cabral Vieira (UA), António Gomes de Meneses (UA); Carlos Farinha Rodrigues (ISEG), Manuel Nunes Henriques (U. Lusofona), Mário Centeno (ISEG), .... (UNL)

• RMG – Workshop internacional sobre “Income Assistance Programs and the Labour Market”, 20 e 21 de Junho de 2003. Participantes: Pedro Telhado Pereira (UMa), Mário Fortuna (UA), José Cabral Vieira (UA), António Gomes de Meneses (UA), Carlos Farinha Rodrigues (ISEG), Lars Osberg (Dalhousie University), Robern Haveman (University of Wisconsin – Madison), Barbara Wolfe (University of Wisconsin – Madison), Joop Hartog (University of Amsterdam),Jean-Marc Rizzo (Université de la Reunion)

• XIV Jornadas Luso-Espanholas de Gestão Científica sobre “A Competitividade das Regiões num Mundo Globalizado”, Fevereiro de 2004. Jornadas organizadas em colaboração com a Universidade de Sevilha e com a Universidade Portucalense.

• Jornadas de Economia da Universidade da Madeira – 2002 – Economia Social, - 2003 – Turismo e Desenvolvimento Sustentado.

The Center has two research locations: one in Ponta Delgada and the other in Funchal.

• The Center has two research locations: one in Ponta Delgada and the other in Funchal.

• Each location has a research co-ordinator elected by the residents members of that location.

• There is a bi-anual rotation between the locations for the role Research General Co-ordinator, being that the first General Co-ordinator belongs to the Universidade da Madeira.

• The Center will have a administrative co-ordination located at the Azores.

Members (Ph. D.)

• Members (Ph. D.)

• Pedro Telhado Pereira

• José Amaral Fortuna

• Carlos Aberto Silva Melo Santos

• José Manuel Monteiro da Silva

• Benedita Câmara

• Maria de Fátima Sequeira Dias

• Tomaz Ponce Dentinho

José António Cabral Vieira

• José António Cabral Vieira

• António José Vasconcelos Franco Gomes de Menezes

• João Pedro Almeida Couto

• Margarida Mendonça Vaz do Rego Machado

• Emiliana Leonilde Diniz Gil Soares da Silva

• Gunther Lang

• Santiago Budria