The purpose of this paper is the identification of issues that help to explain the origin of a Labor Relations Systems in this country. It includes the analysis of the different components and their links with the social, economic and political context.

In 2005 a system of collective bargaining that defines minimum wages by industry and job categories within industries was re-implemented in Uruguay. In this document we describe in detail a methodology that combines wage data from Uruguay’s Household Survey with administrative data on minimum...

The purpose of this document is to build a methodology for the analysis of the Labor Relations Systems considering the specificity of the region. It includes the system profile and its interactions with the social, economic and political context.

It took place a very deep labor reform and resulted a new Labor Relations System Regulated and Participativo. The Washington Consensus approach may consider that there were new rigidities; but investment, gross internal product, employment and wages, continued growing. As results, the...

Despite the importance of collective bargaining in the economic sphere, there is little empirical evidence on the evaluation of it as an effective instrument for fixation of minimum wages. Furthermore, existing studies on deviations between wages actually paid and agreed, focus on analyzing the...