En este documento realizamos un análisis descriptivo de la evolución de la participación femenina encomparación con la masculina en el mercado laboral uruguayo entre 1986 y 2000. El análisis descriptivo sobre las tendencias de la participación realizado, de acuerdo a las variables...

Este trabajo tuvo como objetivo: i) el estudio de la evolución del diferencial de salarios entre el sector público y privado y, ii) analizar el impacto en la distribución del ingreso de dicha evolución. Las principales conclusiones del trabajo son: -El salario promedio por hora es mayor en...

This paper develops a non-linear DSGE model to assess the interaction between ex-post interventions in credit markets and the build-up of risk ex ante. During a systemic crisis, bailouts relax balance sheet constraints and mitigate the severity of the recession. Ex ante, the anticipation of such...

This paper proposes a theoretical model which incorporates capital accumulation and spatial spillovers across economies, while allowing for differences in absorptive abilities. This model is later estimated for a sample of 215 European NUTS2 regions, before and after the last enlargement of the...

Economic literature has examined the impact of education and factors endowment on individual preferences towards free-trade and immigration by focusing on the sign of an interaction term between the educational level and the Gross Domestic Product per capita. The aim of this paper is to...

A change in the syllabus of the subject “Mathematic Fundamentals for Social Sciences”, a mandatory subject belonging to the first semester of the general education level of all bachelors at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República. The change also brought an important...

Although the wage distribution is central to analysing inequality issues, the provision of public services destined for t he poor can make an essential difference in evaluating inequality in welfare rather than in income. Whereas raising taxes to fund public services would lead to a...

Latin America is a region characterized by its racial inequality. The recent appearance in official statistics of questions about the racialascendancyof individuals, enables us to test the validity of thatassumption for Uruguay. For the quantification of the wage gap between white and African...

The goal of this paper is to present the simulation model used in a research on the macroeconomic effects of the law 16.713 that reforms the Uruguayan social security system. It is a version of the overlapping generation models that have been extensively used for the analysis of fiscal and...