Purpose – The economic performance of Uruguay in the last 50 years has been disappointing. Annual growth in labor productivity has been lower than the rest of the Latin American economies and well below that East Asian and OECD countries. Out of the 0.9 percent of annual growth in...

Purpose – The economic performance of Uruguay in the last 50 years has been disappointing. Annual growth in labor productivity has been lower than the rest of the Latin American economies and well below that East Asian and OECD countries. Out of the 0.9 percent of annual growth in...

This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on labor and capital gross flows and productivity in the Uruguayan manufacturing sector. Uruguay opened its economy in the presence of -at least initially- strong unions and structurally different industry concentration levels. Higher...

The authors use a panel of manufacturing firms to analyze the adjustment process in capital blue collar and white collar employment in Uruguay during a period of trade liberalization when average tariff protection fell from 43 to 14 percent. They calculate the desired factor levels arising from...

En este artículo se describe la dinámica del empleo y del capital en la industria manufacturera uruguaya entre 1982 y 1995 a partir de estimar las tasas de creación, destrucción, creación neta y reasignación de los factores de producción usando la muestra de establecimientos de la...

This article analyses a labour supply model in which individuals maximize a utility function that depends on leisure time, consumption and time devoted to an activity that is termed ‘artistic'. This activity may generate income that depends nonlinearly on hours dedicated to it. The individual...

This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on labor and capital gross flows and productivity in the Uruguayan manufacturing sector. Uruguay opened its economy in the presence of at least initially-strong unions and structurally different industry concentration levels. Higher...

Using a panel of Uruguayan manufacturing firms we analyze the adjustment process in capital, blue collar and white collar employment. Our results confirm the lumpy nature of factor adjustment, the relevance of nonlinearities and the interdependence between factor shortages. The average annual...

Using a sample of Uruguayan establishments we analyze employment, capital and productivity dynamics over a period with changes in trade policy and in the institutional setting of employment negotiations. Firms performed a technological conversion towards more capital intensive technologies. This...