This paper analyzes the impact that the rules and characteristics of the political system have on satisfaction with democracy in Latin America. Using individual level survey data provided by Latinobarometer and controlling for both personal characteristics and macroeconomic variables, we find...

The purpose of this paper is to study the evolution, during the nineties, of the wage differential between men and women, and in particular the labor market discrimination. We try to analyze if in a frame of increasing openness to international trade, decreasing inflation, wage negotiation...

In this document we made a descriptive analysis of the evolution of the female participation in comparison to the masculine one in the Uruguayan labor market between 1986 and 2000. The descriptive analysis of the tendencies of the participation made according to the variables related to the...

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...

We study experimentally the relationship between intra-firm wage dispersion chosen by principals and workers'' performance. Principals show a preference for more egalitarian wage schemes, and workers are negatively influenced by high levels of wage inequality.

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...