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This article analyzes a survey among 15 year-old adolescents that dropped out of the formal educational system before completing junior high. It is the first study that uses data on cognitive skills, self-perception of skills and expectations of future studies that were gathered when these...
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This paper analyzes the evolution of income inequality and characterizes income mobility in Uruguay during the period … the top 1% is approximately 80%; (3) women´s persistent rates at the top of the income distribution are slightly lower ….p. reduction in the Gini index and the top 1% income share respectively); (6) finally, personal income taxation in Uruguay …
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The Batllismo was a defining political and cultural phenomenon of Uruguay in the first three decades of the twentieth …
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hand, the increasing role of the Republic Bank of Uruguay (Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay, BROU) in the …
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A Negative Income Tax (NIT) is an example of tax expenditure, from which is possible to ensure a minimum income to every citizen. In this paper I consider the impact of a tax whit this characteristic on disposable income, poverty, and inequality of alternative designs. Efficiency and equity can...
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Although the Uruguayan participation in world trade was insignificant, the external sector had a crucial role in the national economy of such a small and open country. On the one hand, the country's economic growth depended on livestock exports, on the other, continued state funding was...
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From a review of various theoretical approaches with an endogenous and territorial explanation of the development process is found evidence about economic development of a region depending on the interaction of four key factors: innovation, organization of production, urban agglomeration...
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malnutrition for those attending the first grade at public institutions in Uruguay. The results from this study will provide … first grade at public schools in Uruguay during 2004. The results confirm the relevance of income as a path to well …
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The process of industrialization by import substitutions in Uruguay has shown special characteristics in the Latin …
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There´s a consensus in the Uruguayan historiography about the important increase of the state intervention in economic and social issues during the long period of political dominance of Batllismo (1903-1933). However, the studies of this phenomenon have not discriminated sufficiently between...
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