In spite of an early legislation on divorce in Uruguay, the total number of divorces has increased significantly since the second half of the 1980’s. The purpose of this work is to identify the characteristics of women and their spouses associated with a larger risk of divorce, using the...

The estimations in this paper show that there is a high risk that a very significant share of the workers registered in the work history of the main social security institution of Uruguay (the BPS) will not be able to comply with the condition of contributing 35 years to access the pension when...

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar el impacto de la reforma de la seguridad social de 1995 sobre las cuentas generacionales, esto es, sobre el valor presente del conjunto de prestaciones netas de aportes percibidas a lo largo del ciclo de vida por distintas cohortes. Este tipo de...

The aim of this article is to answer the question of whether women in Uruguay face a glass ceiling. To do this, the conditional gender wage gap is evaluated along the empirical wage distribution function. Separated quantile regression for women and men are estimated. We evaluate the...

Como el país no cuenta con información que permita reproducir los salarios sobre los cuales se realizaron los aportes y calcularon las pasividades hasta el año 1995, los estudios comprendidos en el proyecto “Los efectos macroeconómicos de la reforma de la seguridad social” requirieron...

In this paper a discussion of the participation of college studentes in the labor market in Uruguay is presented. The participation rate of students between 18 and 30 years old is 66%. This situation arises in a context where an important percentage of students require to graduate more years...

This document presents a preliminar overview of the results of a survey about family structures and social outcomes. The information was collected between March and October of 2001. The sample included 1806 women aged 25 to 54 years old, living in Montevideo and its suburban areas in Canelones...

The purpose of this paper is to study the reasons that underlie non-compliance with child support orders in divorce cases and to review the problems of the enforcement system. Firstly, there is a brief description of the links between divorce, economic welfare and household structure. Secondly,...