seven countries in South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay), the paper explores …

The 2001/02 Argentine crisis had a profound impact on Uruguay's economy. Uruguay's gross domestic product shrank by 17 … a similar crisis on the current Uruguayan economy. The simulation exercise suggests that Uruguay would now be in a …

How much redistribution does Uruguay accomplish through social spending and taxes? How progressive are revenue … collection and social spending? A standard fiscal incidence analysis shows that Uruguay achieves a nontrivial reduction in …

The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of Uruguay's privatization and subsequent nationalization of water …

, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities … are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is dominant in Brazil. Two regime changes are observed during the … sample period, 1995-2004: (i) in Uruguay wage indexation declines, while workers' resistance to nominal wage cuts becomes …

judicialization in public health care. It uses a unique dataset of stakeholder perceptions, from Uruguay, to test whether these …

The objective of this paper is to analyze the employment profile trends in Argentina and Uruguay according to the task …

collar employment in Uruguay during a period of trade liberalization when average tariff protection fell from 43 to 14 …

also believe that the policy responses adopted by the Uruguayan authorities were mostly adequate, allowing Uruguay to …

We propose alternative methods to project pension rights and implement them in Chile and Uruguay and partially in …