This research estimates the impact of Plan Ceibal in students’ achievement at public primary school in Uruguay. Plan Ceibal is the first national model of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) which is being carried out in Uruguay since 2007 in some provinces, but reached national scale during 2009. The...

The Frente Amplio government macroeconomic policy continued the previous policy and was successful about the crisis administration, with better outputs fulfilling the targets agreed with the IMF. The exceptional macroeconomic success wasn´t fully reflected over better life conditions of the...

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...

This paper considers bad quality employments to those that have some limitation and need some kind of change. Reviews different approaches from Marx to the ILO definition of decent work, analyses the evolution of bad quality employment in Uruguay and proposes some policies to achieve a better...

This paper attempts to follow in consonance with the recent economic historiography that has started to pay more attention to the history of credit, the banking sector and, in particular, development banks in Latin America. The paper examines the credit directed towards industry by the Banco de...

Do individuals choose their reference groups, i.e. their Joneses, or are they culturally transmitted across generations? We provide evidence that feeds the theoretical debate about the endogeneity or exogeneity of reference groups. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that reference groups are...

En este trabajo evaluamos un esquema redistributivo alternativo para Uruguay. Concretamente analizamos los impactos que en términos de equidad y eficiencia tendría la sustitución del nuevo sistema de transferencias condicionadas (asignaciones familiares AFAM) y de los impuestos directos...

This paper uses the methods proposed by Antman y Mckenzie (2007) to tests the existence of poverty traps in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. We model the income dynamics of households and their reactions to recessions. We also focus in income trajectories for different educational levels, and...