Mientras las políticas educativas deben ser designadas con una perspectiva de largo plazo, considerando el desafío que el futuro puede acarrear, es la experiencia pasada la relevante para designar programas de capacitación que remedien la situación de los trabajadores golpeados. De acuerdo a...

Although the wage distribution is central to analysing inequality issues, the provision of public services destined for t he poor can make an essential difference in evaluating inequality in welfare rather than in income. Whereas raising taxes to fund public services would lead to a...

Labour market condition have been very favourable in Uruguay in the last decade;however, the situation varies according to workers qualifications. This is so in terms of employment growth, unemployment rates, wage rates, and also in the presence of informality. This paper focuses on several aspects...

Some countries seem to be lagging behind in global accumulation of skills. As the ratio of skilled to unskilled labour is key for growth (e.g. endogenous growth theory), this situation suggests a gloomy future for developing countries. Is catching up with the developed world?s levels of skills...

El presente trabajo pretende estudiar cuáles son los principales factores determinantes de los resultados académicos de los estudiantes de educación media en Uruguay. Para ello se analizan los datos de PISA 2012 a través de un modelo jerárquico lineal (HLM por sus siglas en inglés),...

El exponencial crecimiento de China en los últimos treinta años genera preocupaciones e interrogantes en el ámbito político y académico. El país asiático ha pasado a ser el segundo socio comercial de América Latina, cuando en 1990 representaba apenas 0,6% del comercio total de la...

Changes in technology and markets result in the transformation of economic structure: When labor is quasi-fixed due to short-term specificity, changing conditions may imply either temporary unemployment or the need of retraining to enable mobility across the sectors. There is an economy-wide...