Working with the ART Local Development Program of UNDP in Uruguay, trying to promote the productive resources available to local economies in terms of endogenous development, we developed a methodology applied to fifteen regions in the country. The methodology provide an overall view of the...

Settler economies are characterized for the abundance of natural resources. However, natural capital is not homogeneous and it induces differences in terms of economic performance. I discuss the effect of agricultural natural resources on production and income distribution in the agriculture in...

There is a certain group of worker characteristics which typically has great influence in the determination of wage distribution. This set of characteristics define the wage structure of a given economy. The careful study of the wage structure makes explicit different aspects of incentives and...

Based on the “task approach” to labor markets this research seeks to analyze the contribution of technology content of tasks as another explanation factor to the distribution of men wages in Uruguay during the nineties and the first decade of the 2000s. We use unconditional quantile...

In Uruguay total yearly tourists represent about 90% of its population of which historically 60% or more have come from Argentina. Tourist activities have a great impact on Uruguayan economy. They represent about 4% of Uruguayan GDP and generate near 6% of total employment and 14% of total...

Uruguay has registered in the last ten years a strong dynamism of economic activity and a steady decline in the unemployment rate. However, this does not account for the quality of the jobs created by economic expansion. This research seeks to answer: How has the quality of employment evolved in...

This paper analyses banking regulation in Uruguay during the period of state-led industrialization. We aim to fill a hole in the national economic historiography, which has paid scant attention to this topic, and to advance in consonance with recent developments in the Latin American...

This paper reviews current issues in labour markets in Uruguay. It argues that there was a strong association between growth, employment and wages

Analyses the prospects of occupation and the "employment problems" defined as situations considered non acceptable so that its needed policies to change it. The article was also published as a chapter of the book "Uruguay agenda 2020" coordinated by Rodrigo Arocena & Gerardo Caetano with the...

This paper analyzes the evolution of gender occupational segregation between 2001 and 2011and its influence on the wage gap during the period 2007-2011 to Uruguay. Through the construction and analysis of the Duncan index the results indicates an overall decrease in gender occupational...