Since 2023 Professor of Economics, Birkbeck Business School, Birkbeck University of London
2020-2023 Reader, EMS, Birkbeck University of London
2018-2020 Senior Lecturer, EMS, Birkbeck University of London.
2017-2018 Lecturer B, EMS, Birkbeck University of London.
2010-2017 Assistant Professor, Dept. Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
2012-2013 Visiting Lecturer, Dept. Economics, University of Essex.
2006-2010 Ph.D. in Economics at the London School of Economics.
2005-2006 Master of Research in Economics, with Distinction, at the London School of Economics.
2004-2005 Master of Science in Economics, with Distinction, at the London School of Economics.
1999-2003 Degree in Economics, with Honors, at the Lisbon Technical University.
[2001] Erasmus exchange program at the Free University of Amsterdam, with honors.
Center for Macroeconomics (associate);
IZA Institute of Labour Economics (fellow);
Higher Education Academy (fellow);
Royal Economic Society,
European Economic Association,
American Economic Association,
European Association of Labour Economists.
Books
Friday is the New Saturday, Flint, 2021.
Translated to Portuguese, 2022 (Relógio D'Água).
Translated to Korean, 2022 (Nexus).
Translated to Italian, 2023 (Laterza)
Translated to Spanish, 2024 (RBA)
Paperback version, 2024 (Flint)
Refereed journals
“You’re the one that I want! Understanding the over-representation of women in the public sector.” With Z. Kuehn, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2026.
“Tables have turned: Vertical mismatch across gender.” With Garibaldi and Sopraseuth, Labour Economics, 2026.
“Is the NHS ready for a four day week?” With Fontinha R, Burchell B, Morin A, Skordis J, Barros P P, Vandoros, S., The BMJ, 2025
“Output Costs of Education and Skill Mismatch in OECD Countries.” With Garibaldi and Sopraseuth, Economic Letters, 2025.
“Economic Consequences of Vertical Mismatch.” With P. Garibaldi and T,. Sopraseuth, Quantitative Economics, 2024.
Gomes, P. and H. Seoane (2024), “Made in Europe: monetary and fiscal policy interactions with financial frictions”, European Economic Review.
Chassamboulli, A., I. Fontaine, I. Galvez and P. Gomes (2024), “Immigration and Labour Market Flows,” Labour Economics.
Allub, L., P. Gomes and Z. Kuehn (2023), “Human Capital and Financial Development: Firm-level interactions and macroeconomic implications”, Economic Journal.
Chassamboulli, A., P. Gomes (2023), “Public-sector employment, wages and education decisions,” Labour Economics.
Camilli, A., P. Gomes (2023), “Public employment and homeownership dynamics,” Public Choice, 194, 101–155.
Garibaldi, A., Gomes, P. and Sopraseuth, T. (2021) "Public Employment Redux" Journal of Government and Economics, 1, forthcoming.
Chassamboulli, A., and Gomes, P. (2021) "Jumping the queue: nepotism and public-sector pay" Review of Economic Dynamics, 9, 344-366.
Chassamboulli, A., Fontaine, I. and Gomes, P. (2020) "How important are worker gross flows between public and private sector?", Economics Letters, forthcoming.
Fontaine, I., Galvez I., Gomes, P. and D. Vila (2020), “Labour market flows: accounting for the public sector”, Labour Economics, forthcoming.
Gomes, P. and Machado, M. (2020), “Literacy and primary school expansion in Portugal: 1940-62", Revista de Historia Económica Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (RHE-JILAEH), 38(1), 111-145.
Gomes, P. (2018), "Heterogeneity and the public sector wage policy", International Economic Review, 59 (3), 1469-1489.
Gomes, P. and Librero-Cano, A. (2018), "Evaluating three decades of the European Capital of Culture programme: a difference-in-differences approach”, Journal of Cultural Economics, 42(1), 57-73, 2018
Gomes, P. and Kuehn, Z. (2017), “Human capital and the size distribution of firms”, Review of Economic Dynamics, 26, 164-179.
Fernandez-Blanco, J. and Gomes, P. (2017) "Unobserved Heterogeneity, Exit Rates, and Re-employment Wages", The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119 (2), 375-404.
Gomes, P. and Taamouti, A. (2016), "In search of the determinants of international asset market comovements”, International Review of Economics and Finance, 44, 103-117.
Gomes, P. (2015), "Optimal public sector wages", The Economic Journal, 125 (587), 1425-1451 [Austin Robinson Memorial Prize].
Gomes, P. (2015), "The importance of frequency in estimating labour market transition rates”, IZA Journal of Labour Economics, 4:6.
Afonso, A. and Gomes, P. (2014), "Interactions between private and public sector wages”, Journal of Macroeconomics, 39(PA), 97-112.
Afonso, A., Gomes, P. and Taamouti, A. (2014), "Sovereign credit ratings, market volatility, and financial gains”, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 76(C), 20-33.
Afonso, A., Furceri, D., Gomes, P. (2012), “Sovereign credit ratings and financial markets linkages: application to European data”, Journal of International Money and Finance, 31 (3), 606-638.
Gomes, P (2012), “Labour market flows: Facts from the United Kingdom”, Labour Economics, 19 (2), 165-175.
Afonso, A., Gomes, P. (2011), “Do fiscal imbalances deteriorate sovereign debt ratings?”, Revue Économique, 62 (6), 1123-1134.
Afonso, A., Gomes, P., Rother, P. (2011), “What are the Short and Long-run Determinants of Sovereign Debt Ratings”, International Journal of Finance and Economics, 16 (1), 1-15.
Afonso, A.; Gomes, P., Rother, P. (2009), “Ordered Response Models for Sovereign Debt Ratings”, Applied Economics Letters, 16 (8), 769-773.
Chapters in books
Gomes (2022), “The recent movement towards a four-day working week”. In: Goulart P, Ramos R, Ferrittu G (eds) Global Labour in Distress, the post-Cold War era. Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland.
Gomes (2016), "Reforming the public sector's wage policy", in Public Sector Economics and the Need for Reforms, P. Apostolis, (eds.), MIT press, ISBN: 9780262034449.
Afonso, A.; Gomes, P., Rother, P. (2008), "What "Hides" Behind Sovereign Debt Ratings?", in New Developments in Financial Modelling, J. Soares, J. Pina e M. Catalao-Lopes (eds.), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN 978-1847186744.
Refereed journals (not in English)
Gomes, P. (2023) “Semana de quatro dias no setor público: riscos e oportunidades”, Revista de Administração e Emprego Público, 8, 2023.
Gomes, P. (2022) “La setmana laboral de quatre dies com a innovació social”, Revista econòmica de Catalunya, 85, 86-91, 2022.
Gomes, P., M. Machado (2021) “A escolarização em Portugal no princípio dos anos 40: uma análise quantitativa”, Ler História, 79, 2021.
Policy Papers
“Portuguese Four-Day Week Pilot: Final report”, with R. Fontinha, Instituto Português de Formação Profissional, June 2024.
“Portuguese Four-Day Week Pilot: Intermediate report”, with R. Fontinha, Instituto Português de Formação Profissional, December 2023.
“Public-sector wages: A view from economic theory”, UK Economic Outlook Spring 2023, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Box D., May 2023.
“Portuguese Four-Day Week Pilot: Initial report”, with R. Fontinha, Instituto Português de Formação Profissional, April 2023.
Comments
“Earned settlement: the value of international health and care workers in the UK.” The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, with X. Zhoua, A. Correaa, T. Palmera, M. Sunb, E. Pizzoc, J.Skordis, 2026
“How the four-day working week could affect health.” Nature Human Behaviour, with Vandoros S, P Barros P, Skordis J, Burchell B, Fontinha R, 2025.
2025 – 2026 Co-Coordinator of Four-Day Week Pilot Project for the Azores Regional Government
2025 – … Board member of the European Working Time Network (EU)
2022-2024 Coordinator of Portuguese Four-Day Week Pilot, Portuguese Ministry of Employment.
2010 Visiting Fellow, European Commission.
2009 – 2010 Tutorial Fellow, London School of Economics.
2007 Internship at the Bank of England (Structural economic analysis)
2006 – 2007 Research assistant at the Centre for Economic Performance
2006 Internship at the European Central Bank (Fiscal Policies Division)
2004 – 2005 Research assistant at the European Institute
2002 – 2004 Research assistant at the Research Centre on Financial Economics.
2023 – 2026 Macroeconomics (MSc.), Birkbeck
2018 – 2026 Economics: Theory, Policy and Institutions (MSc.), Birkbeck.
2017 – 2026 Monetary Economics (MSc.), Birkbeck.
2017 – 2021 Quantitative Techniques for Applied Economics (BSc.), Birkbeck.
2017 – 2023 Applied Statistics and Econometric (GDE), Birkbeck.
2017 – 2023 Topics in Macroeconomics (PhD.), Birkbeck.
2013 – 2017 Macroeconomics I, Universidad Carlos III.
2016 Macroeconomics II (PhD), Lisbon Technical University.
2014 – 2015 Macroeconomics of Fiscal Policy (PhD), Universidad Carlos III.
2013 – 2015 Macroeconomics III (PhD), Universidad Carlos III.
2013 Simulations and estimation of DSGE models, application to Fiscal Policy, Lisbon Technical University (Summer School).
2012 – 2013 International Finance (MSc), University of Essex.
2012 – 2013 Advanced Macroeconomics (PhD), University of Essex.
2012 – 2013 International Money and Finance, University of Essex.
2011 – 2012 Macroeconomics of Fiscal Policy (PhD), Universidad Carlos III.
2010 – 2012 Macroeconomics I, Universidad Carlos III.
2009 – 2010 Macroeconomics for MSc. Students, London School of Economics.
2009 Money and Banking, London School of Economics (Summer School).
2008 Public Finance, London School of Economics (Summer School).
2006 – 2007 Mathematical Economics, London School of Economics.
2005 – 2006 International Economics, London School of Economics.
(10) Labour Economics, (8) European Economic Review, (4) Review of Economic Dynamics, (3) American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, (3) Economics Letters, (3) Journal of Monetary Economics, (3) Journal of the European Economic Association, (3) Macroeconomic Dynamics, (3) The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, (3) The Economic Journal, (2) Economic Inquiry, (2) Economic Modelling, (2) Economic Theory, (2) European Journal of Political Economy, (2) Journal of Cultural Economics, (2) Journal of Macroeconomics, (2) Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, (2) Quantitative Economics, (2) The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, (1) Agricultural Economics, (1) American Economic Review, (1) Central European Economic Journal, (1) Econometrica, (1) Economia, (1) Economia-journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, (1) Economic Notes, (1) Economica, (1) Economics & Politics, (1) Empirical Economics, (1) Hacienda Publica Espanola, (1) IZA Journal of Labor Economics, (1) IZA World of Labor, (1) International Finance, (1) International Journal of Economics and Management, (1) International Tax and Public Finance, (1) Journal of Applied Economics, (1) Journal of Banking & Finance, (1) Journal of Development Economics, (1) Journal of Empirical Finance, (1) Journal of International Money and Finance, (1) Manchester School, (1) Oxford Economic Papers, (1) Portuguese Economic Journal, (1) Public Choice, (1) Quarterly Journal of Economics, (1) Regional Studies, (1) Review of Economic Studies, (1) Review of Public Economics, (1) Social Science Research.
Supervisor
2010 – 2014 Dr. Olga Croitorov (Universidad Carlos III), “Sovereign default and asymmetric information.”
2017 – 2022 – Dr. Zeynep Kurter (Birkbeck, University of London), “Essays on the Macroeconomic Determinants of Sovereign and Systemic Risk.”
2017 – 2024 – Dr. João Sousa (Birkbeck, University of London), “The effect of UK fiscal policy on output: an historical narrative approach”
Thesis committee
2015 Dr. Abian Garcia (European University Institute), “Essays on fiscal and monetary unions.”
2015 Dr. Maria Lucila Berniell (Universidad Carlos III), “Essays on public policy and human capital.”
2017 Dr. Maria Michael (Cyprus University), “The Public-Private Wage Gap in European Countries.”
2019 Dr. Seefat Khan (University of Kent), “Growth and labour markets in developing countries.”
2020 Dr. Federica De Pace (Queen Mary University), “Essays in Labour Economics.”
2020 Dr. Rui Faustino (Lisbon Technical University), “Essays in Macroeconomics.”
2022 Dr. Concepción González (Alicante University), “Essays in Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy.”
2023 Dr. Goher Fatima (University of Kent), “Essays on Labour Market Effects of Fiscal Policy.”
2023 Dr. Vedanta Dhamija (University of Surrey), Essays in Monetary Policy.”
2025 Shortlisted for the Panmure House Prize recognizing long-term thinking in relation to innovation, finance, and social and economic change.
2015 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize for the best paper published in the Economic Journal by an author who is within five years of receiving a PhD. for the paper ‘Optimal Public Sector Wages’.
2015 – 2017 Juan de la Cierva Scholarship from the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
2005 – 2009 Scholarship for a Doctoral Degree by the Foundation for Science and Technology.
2004 – 2005 Scholarship for a Masters Degree by the Foundation for Science and Technology.
2004 1st Place in “Undergraduate Paper Competition”, Midwest Economics Association.
2003 Merit Scholarship of the Lisbon Technical University.
INVITED GENERAL AUDIENCE TALKS:
2026 International Labour Organization, PRICE lecture on the four-day workweek (Iceland), Birkbeck Climate Festival.
2025 Wetherby Senior School, Fundação Gertulio Vargas, Working Time Network, Associação de Unidades de Saúde Familiar, Sindicato dos Médicos da Zona Norte, VI Jornada de Direito dos Açores, European Parliament,
2024 Working time reduction for a Just Transition (ETUI), Working Time Reduction Research Network, Unione Italiana Lavoratori Metalmeccanici, 4 Day Week International Encounter (University of Porto), Opening Keynote Lecture of the XXIII Pos-graduation in Labour Law (University de Coimbra), Affinity Health at Work Masterclass (Kings College), UGT ‘Conferência sobre Semana de 4 Dias”, 4-day week live: Behind the scenes of the German pilot project, Lecture for MSc. Public Policy (London School of Economics).
2023 Financial Service Club, IG Metall, Universidad Carlos III, LSE Sen Club, NIESR, 37th EFPSA Congress, CoLABOR, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Birkbeck Summer Seminar, Working Time Network, ASM Talk, Clube de Política - Laboratório do Trabalho, Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo.
2022 International Labour Organization, Development Bank of Latin America, Conference Future of Work, University of the Balearic Islands, University of Coimbra, City University, Reunion University, Izmir Univercity, Lisbon Technical University, Lisbon Catholic University, Porto Catholic University, University of Porto, ISCTE, Nova School of Business, Turin Festival Economics, Four Day Week Summit, Future Works, European Network Time Reduction, Real Utopia for Social Europe.
2021 Trento Festival of Economics Keynote lecture, World Bank Online Seminar, Brighton & Hove City Council, Amazon, International Monetary Fund, Warwick Political Philosophy Reading Group, Bristol Economic's Observatory, Birkbeck, Government Economic and Social Research, Essex Economics Society, Townley Grammar School.
SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
2026 University of Cyprus, 10th Reading IB Conference 2026.
2025 Henley Business School, Household, Finance and Human Capital Workshop, SOLE World Congress Toronto, Lubramacro Workshop.
2024 Lisbon Technical University, European Commission (ECFIN Economic Seminar), Colorado Boulder University, International Monetary Fund, BCAM Workshop “Firms and Market Power”, World Bank.
2023 CEPR Rethinking Economic Policy in Times of Turmoil Conference, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Kent University.
2022 Porto Catholic University, University of the Balearic Islands, PUC Chile, Konztanz University.
2021 London Macro Workshop, Kent Workshop on Firm Dynamics, SED Annual Conference, T3M Flash Presentation, 3nd International Conference of Government and Economics, UECE Conference, 33rd EALE conference.
2020 Porto University, Durham University, OECD, Heriot-Watt University. Fundazione Rodolfo DiBenedetti (XXII European Conference on “Public Sector Jobs”)
2004-2019 102 Invited Seminar and Workshop presentations and 59 Conference Presentations.
2025-26 Co-coordinator of Four-Day Week Pilot, Azores Regional Government, in charge of executing, and evaluating the trial of the four-day week in the public sector, working with senior civil servants.
2024- Expert advisor to companies on four-day week.
2024 Short-Term Consultant at World Bank with EFI-GOV-Public Administration, Collaboration as Co-author for Flagship Report on Public Administration.
2022-2024 Coordinator of Four-Day Week Pilot, Portuguese Ministry of Work and Social Security, in charge of designing, executing, and evaluating the trial of the four-day week in the private sector, working with the minister’s cabinet, senior civil servants, and private sector companies.
2015 External expert on the “Study on credit rating agencies market and the feasibility of alternatives to credit ratings” undertaken by ICF Consulting for the European Commission.
Podcasts: The Europeans, 5 Minutes (UK), RNE, RTVE, El Confidencial, Y esto no es tudo, Y esto no es tudo, RTVE, El Diario Podcast (Spain), Pagine di Economia, Fatti gli affari tuoi (Italy), AFP (France), 45 Graus, ‘People F1rst’, Geração Invicta, A Vida do Dinheiro, Money, Money, Money, Perguntar não ofende, Prova Oral (Portugal).
Television: Blomberg (Middle East), TVE, TVE (Spain), RAI 3 (Italy), CNN Portugal, RTP, Saúde+TV, TVI, CNN Portugal, Porto Canal, CNN Portugal, Novum Canal, RTP 2, Jornal Económico, RTP, RTP2, RTP2, RTP Tudo é Economia (Portugal).
Radio Antena 3, Observador, Observador, Cova da Beira, Antena 1, Observador (Portugal), Radio Bilbao, Radio Euskadi (Spain), Radio Chile (Chile), Talk Radio Europe (UK), ABC (Australia), RCN (Colombia), Radio Som Maior, Radio Educativa (Brasil).
Newspapers: The Telegraph, The Times, Politico, New European, Washington Post, BBC Worklife, BBC Brazil, CNBC (UK/US) La Repubblica, Ibérica, Open (Italy), Verdi, Kontrast (Germany), El Salto, El Periódico, El País, Alternativas Economicas, El País (Spain), A4Medier (Denmark), La Croix , InfoSocial, Figaro, Mind EU, Union Syndicale, Society (France), Epohi (Greece), Alarm (Czech Republic), Expresso, Sábado, Público, Jornal Económico, Revista Contabilista, Observador, Público, DN, Visão, Tempo Livre, Gerador, Público, Expresso, Ensino Magazine, Notícias ao minuto, ZAP (Portugal).