Este trabajo se concentra en las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles (EC), sus factores de riesgo evitables (FR) y las medidas preventivas que se aplican en la Argentina. En particular se persiguen tres objetivos: (1) analizar las características y determinantes de las EC y sus FR, (2)...

Tourism is considered a highly relevant sector as a source of economic growth and job creation. This sector creates 330 million jobs worldwide, both direct and indirect (WTTC, 2020). However, many of the studies highlight the precarious working conditions in this industry, such as low wages,...

This paper estimates wage differentials between green and non-green jobs (wage greenium) in nine major Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay), which account for 81% of the region’s GDP. We contribute to the recent literature...

A child’s disability increases childcare demands causing two opposing effects on the mother’s labor supply: while some types of disability require additional time spent reducing labor supply, othersrequire additional expenses increasing labor supply. This paper studies the effect of a...

This paper aims to identify and characterize the potential of green jobs in Argentina, i.e., those that would benefit from a transition to a green economy, using occupational green potential scores calculated in US O*NET data. We apply the greenness scores to Argentine household survey data and...

Purpose This paper aims to study the role of tourism specialisation on tourism labour precarity in Argentinian cities, considering urban primacy. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose an econometric model that iterates between alternative labour precarity measures explained by the...