Experimental literature has accumulated evidence on the association of personal characteristics to a higher or lower level of prosocial behavior. There is also evidence that donations are affected by the mere provision of information about the recipients, whatever its nature or content. In this...

In this paper we analyze the factors that explain attitudes towards intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in 23 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Analyses of IPVAW in LAC are relatively scarce although there is growing concern about this problem in the region. We aim...

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...

In this paper we analyze the gender differentiated impacts of trade openness in Uruguay using a gender aware CGE model with endogenous labor supply and a home production function. We simulate complete trade liberalization and an increase in tariffs to the level of 1994. Trade liberalization...

Incomplete and highly fragmented work histories threaten to leave many contributors of the pension schemes in Latin America without the minimum pension guarantee or even without access to the ordinary pension. We propose a methodology to assess this risk, identify vulnerable groups and study...

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...