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Obesidad e hipertensión en los adultos mayores uruguayos

Pagano, Juan Pablo; Rossi, Máximo; Triunfo, Patricia - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2007

The present work studies the incidence of obesity and socioeconomic status on the prevalence of hypertension on the elderly of Montevideo, Uruguay. Based on data from the Survey on Health, Well-being and Aging (SABE project, PAHO-WHO), a bivariate probit model is estimated controlling by the...

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El retiro de los trabajadores uruguayos y la seguridad social

Alvarez, Ignacio; Silva, Natalia da; Forteza, Alvaro; … - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2009

We analyze recent trends of the activity rates and retirement of Uruguayan old age workers. We find that in Uruguay … the 1996 social security reform. The minimum retirement age seems to be playing a key role in the retirement of Uruguayan … workers. We find peaks of retirement at the minimum retirement age and a gradual increase of the retirement age of women which …

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El acceso a la jubilación o pensión en Uruguay: ¿cuántos y quiénes lo lograrían?

Bucheli, Marisa; Ferreira-Coimbra, Natalia; Forteza, Alvaro - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2005

condition of contributing 35 years to access the pension when they reach the usual ages for retirement, if the frequencies of …

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Seguridad social y género en Uruguay: un análisis de las diferencias de acceso a la jubilación

Bucheli, Marisa; Forteza, Alvaro; Rossi, Ianina - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2006

In Uruguay, the pension programs cover over 90% of the elderly. Men are more likely to be eligible for the contributory pensions, while women are over-represented in the assistential and survivor pension programs. This difference is linked to the fact that women tend to have longer spells out of...

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Incentivos y patrones de retiro en Uruguay

Alvarez, Ignacio; Silva, Natalia Da; Forteza, Alvaro; … - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2011

security program and we assess their impact on retirement and pension claims observed between 1996 and 2004. The implicit tax … increased the incentives to work. However, we do not find the expected effects of the incentive indicators on retirement. …

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Assessing Redistribution within Social Insurance Systems.The cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay

Forteza, Alvaro - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2011

This paper summarizes the main findings in a series of coordinated studies conducted to assess the impact of social security programs on the distribution of lifetime labor income in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay. The country-case studies find varying degrees of redistribution,...

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Assessing Redistribution in the Uruguayan Social Security System

Forteza, Alvaro; Mussio, Irene - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2011

We assess redistribution in the Uruguayan main pension and unemployment insurance programs on a lifetime basis. Using administrative records from social security, we simulate lifetime declared labor income and flows of contributions and benefits of affiliates to the programs. Expected present...

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Bono demográfico y envejecimiento en Uruguay

González, Cecilia; Bucheli, Marisa - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2014

Uruguay comenzó su transición demográfica a principios del siglo veinte y tiene una población envejecida si se lo compara con los países de la región. A su vez, es un país con una larga tradición de gasto público en programas sociales, en particular con un sistema de jubilaciones y...

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Armington Elasticities: Estimates for Uruguayan Manufacturing Sectors

Flores, Manuel; Cassoni, Adriana - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010

Armington elasticities of substitution – AEs – are a crucial set of parameters that allows CGEMs applied to trade to be operational. In the case of Uruguay, no estimated values for these parameters have been available until now, forcing researchers to impose them arbitrarily. We here start...

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¿Qué protección social ofrecería un pilar de “cuentas nocionales” en Uruguay?

Forteza, Alvaro; Rossi, Ianina - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010

It is usually accepted that a pure NDC scheme is not adequate to protect individuals against the risk of poverty in old age, because it does not incorporate any redistribution of the system`s revenue. However, we show that insufficient coverage and weak social protection can be more seriuos...

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