Investment promotion through tax incentives has been a key component of the last two governments’ strategy to stimulate the accumulation of productive assets. A public policy mechanism such as the Investment Promotion Regime (IPR, established by Decree 455/007) inevitably raises questions...

In this work we present the results of a recent survey thar covered the whole universe of Worker Cooperatives in Uruguay. In order to be able to evaluate the comparative performance of Worker Cooperatives the survey covered also a control group of conventional firms with similar size and sector...