From the introduction:
> For many years, a key distinguishing feature of the Portuguese labour market has been its persistently high employment and relatively low unemployment, despite the high level of employment protection ... The crisis has now seemingly brought about an end to this striking feature of the Portuguese labour market: ... As a result, Portugal now [in 2017] has the third highest unemployment rate among OECD countries; ...
And the findings:
> The results show that the sharp outward shift in the Portuguese Beveridge curve was to a large extent driven by cyclical factors. However, it was compounded by some structural factors, namely, the relatively high level of employment protection together with the relatively high minimum wage ratio and the relatively generous unemployment benefit system.