In this paper, we examine the effects of a social and labour inclusion program called Uruguay Trabaja (UT) on various labour market outcomes and subjective well-being in Uruguay. Usingadministrative data and a custom survey, we estimate the program’s causal effects by exploiting the random...

Using matched employer-employee administrative data from Uruguay, we analyze the distributive effects of a wage policy with a national minimum wage and more than two hundred sectoral minimum wages. This wage policy reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution for all formal...