Along the 1990’s there was an increase in the number of people who attended college in Uruguay, both in employment and in the labor force. This article seeks to find if there is evidence of overeducation at the tertiary level, defined as mismatch between supply and demand of that skill level....

Several studies estimate TFP for the Uruguayan economy at an aggregate level (Bucacos,2000; Blyde et al, 2004; Fossati et al, 2005; De Brum, 2004). Though they use generally similar estimation methodologies they find contradictory evidence. In this paper we discuss possible explanations to these...

In this paper we analyze the correlation between measures of success (number of recordings, artistic income) over a sample of performing musicians. We obtain that women tend to record more than men but earn less artistic income; measures of success are correlated positively with broad measures of...

This paper presents descriptive data about Uruguayan’s quality of life and spare time. The data is divided depending on sex, education, age and living place of the target people of this study. Four of five interviewed people reported feeling quite happy or very happy. However, degree of...