This paper deals with the results of the Survey of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR_II) carried out by the Department of Economics (FCS-UDELAR) to private companies in the industry,commerce and services during the second quarter of 2007. We took into account Montevideo as well as the...

The aim of this paper is to present the results of the Survey: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) which was carried out by the Department of Economics (FCSUDELAR) in 2006 to respondents older than 17 years. This survey is part of a Project on CSR funded by the Sectoral Commission for...

If we accept that the concept of corruption is influenced by culture and personal values then, we should ask: 1) what are the individual characteristics that shape corruption perception? 2) how important is the incidence of the country of residence in determining it? and 3) is there a...

This papers aims at dimensioning the level of tolerance and its determinants. For doing so, we construct maps that describe world reserves of tolerance and we consider four basic dimensions: ethnic, religion, homosexuality and lesbianism and immigrants. Keeping in mind that individual perception...

This paper presents the results of the Role of Government Survey conducted by the Department of Economics (FCS-UDELAR) under the Project of the International Social Survey Program, supported by the Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Científica (CSIC) and the Asociación Cristiana de...

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...

This paper analyzes use of the time of the couples into the household. The principals conclusions are that the sex of the one interviewed is the variable that conditions the quantity of hours that she/he dedicates to the tasks into the household. The women dedicate on the average 30 weekly hours...

This paper studies the uruguayan young population between 14 and 29 years old. The contribution from young to the society is not limited exclusively to their economic contribution. It is essential in the social institutions as form of giving them the necessary flexibility to adapt to changes,...

We analyze teenage sexual initiation of Uruguayan women aged less than 24 years, by a multinomial logit model for the alternatives of not initiating, initiating without a contraceptive method and initiating with a contraceptive method. In the paper we ?nd three relevant results. First, the level...

Based on the Survey on Social and Biological Reproduction of the Uruguayan Population: an approximation to gender and generations car- ried out by the Gender and Generations project in 2004, we study the e¤ect of teenage childbearing on educational outcomes of mothers. The predicted results...