This paper presents empirical evidence of the effect of collective bargaining and unions on wages and its dispersion in Argentina.To this end,we use a recent and novel household survey and the decompositions method. Our results show that collective agreement coverage increases wages mainly in...

El presente trabajo analiza el gasto en alimentos que realizan los hogares en Argentina mediante la estimación de curvas de Engel, teniendo en cuenta tanto características demográficas de los hogares como la presencia de heterogeneidad en sus preferencias de consumo. La estimación de...

Is the Andean economic rationality different to the rationality of the conventional economic model? This is the question that motivated this research work. To carry out this research we start reviewing the literature on the subject, which gave us certain guidelines that the behavior of the...