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...

International tendencies in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) show that transnationalization process increased quickly in the last years. Uruguay showed in the nineties a good capacity of attract FDI. However, since the economic recovery after the 2002 crisis, the country saw huge amounts of FDI....

The figures show that in Uruguay there are not significant changes in the composition of employment by qualifications during the last decade, being the majority group those of medium skilled workers. Even when in the period there was a significant increment in employment, it was not exempt of...

In recent years, Uruguay has experienced a process of increasing college tuition without a counterpart to increased expenditure, which has resulted in a decrease in expenditure per student and the consequent loss of quality. In this context, one wonders how it could finance the necessary...

Education, particularly higher education, generates both social benefits as private benefits, of which the individual appropriates. This paper attempts to determine the monetary benefits received by individuals who have completed higher education. For this porpous, it is consider the income of...