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The issue of public safety has been under debate in Uruguay and a great part of the public opinion highlights that the situation has worsened. The objective of this study is to verify people’s perception in Uruguay and discuss the responses in comparison with others Latin American countries....
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Spanish Abstract: Amartya Sen, en su enfoque de las capacidades, siempre se negó a desarrollar un elenco de capacidades o necesidades, por considerar que las concreciones debían eran idiosincráticas de cada cultura. Esta opción, sin embargo, dificulta la operacionalización de su teoría. En...
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capital is a kind of "unemployment insurance" and that friends provide information about vacancies and salaries …
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We analyze data on happiness for Argentina and Uruguay. The focus is put on self-reported health status as a key aspect in increasing happiness levels. Then, the probabilty of being happy is estimated by probit models. Results show that the main relationship is between happiness and health...
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In recent years, the sharp increase in Uruguayan unemployment rates has been accompanied by the perception that the … risk of unemployment is unevenly distributed so that some groups are more prone to undergo long periods of unemployment …. This research aims to complement the information reflected in the unemployment rate with the one referred to its duration …
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from household surveys. We analyze the case of the national unemployment rate for Ecuador; assess the potential …
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This paper studies the efectivity of search methods in the colombian labor market. The empirical analysis is uses the 2003 survey of life quality. More frequently used methods are the informal ones; i.e. informal economic activities are reflected in the informality of search methods. Formal...
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In this article we analyse the relationships between unemployment and cooperative. We suppose that cooperatives there … are not a solution to the unemployment but however they improve labour conditions. To check this we carried out a study …
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Este trabajo examina los determinantes de la duración del primer desempleo de una cohorte de jóvenes graduados: los que obtuvieron su titulación en el curso 2001/2002 en las carreras del área económica de la Universidad de Sevilla. Tras estimar un logit ordenado para datos de duración se...
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from household surveys. We analyze the case of the national unemployment rate for Ecuador; assess the potential …
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