The purpose of this paper will be to study the evolution of poverty and privation in Uruguay between 1989 and 1997. We found that from 1991 there was an increase wage inequality in Uruguay and poverty changed little, decreased until 1993 and then increased and deprivation increased. Near a half...

The analysis of the evolution of wage polarization in Uruguay during the last twelve years shows that the distribution of wages has become progressively more unequal and, most of all, more polarized. Increased premia to skill and experience, together with increased wage differentials by economic...

Las restricciones impuestas por organismos reguladores al diseño de carteras de administradoras de fondos de retiro, pretenden orientar el comportamiento de las administradoras, no obstante estas restricciones conllevan pérdida de bienestar por parte de los ahorristas. En el presente trabajo...

We simulate the budget of the main pension institution of the country, the Banco de Previsión Social (BPS), from 1995, the year the reform was passed, to 2050, when the new system should be mature. We perform several sensitivity analyses to evaluate which are the key exogenous variables and...

The aim of this paper is to relate the General Equilibrium Theory and modern Finance Theory. We work with an infinite dimensional economy with a market for goods an actives, and where the number of agents is finite. Each agent has an intertemporal utility function with uncertainty on the states...

Se realiza la estimación de una función de costos translogarítmica con datos panel para las 41 instituciones de asistencia médica colectiva que operaron en Uruguay durante el período 1985-1993. Las instituciones monopólicas (únicas en le departamento donde actúan) son las que presentaron...