This paper assesses the likelihood of meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We simulate the poverty impact of changes in growth rates and redistributive policies, and trace the poverty consequences of various alternative...

This document is the first of a series of reports on the socio-economic situation in Uruguay. It is mainly based on a wide range of distributional, labor and social statistics computed from microdata collected by the Encuesta Continua de Hogares (ECH) from 1989 to 2003. Data has also been drawn...

En el año 2005 se reestructura el marco institucional en el que se desarrollan las relaciones laborales, teniendo como principal elemento de cambio, la reconvocatoria de los Consejos de Salarios. Por lo que el objetivo del presente trabajo es investigar que ha ocurrido con el grado de...