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Labor Economics

Labor Economics

This group examines the status and dynamics of the labor market's variables. It also dives into specific themes such as women's and young people's labor market insertion, the evaluation and implementation of public policies that affect the labor market, and the impact of various labor market institutions. The IECON has been studying the labor market for a very long time from both empirical and theoretical angles, with a macro and microeconomic focus.

Lines of research

Public policies

This line of research analyzes how public policies affect the decisions of individuals, families, and companies in different contexts, mainly in the labor market. Work has been done on active employment policies (Uruguay Trabaja), educational programs, proximity programs (Jóvenes en Red), transfer programs (AFAM), pension systems, tax evasion, and labor inspection.

Labor market dynamics

This line of research seeks to analyze the labor market from a dynamic perspective. Specifically, how the decisions of economic agents over time influence future trajectories. We are also interested in studying the link between labor trajectories, job loss, and specific human capital.

Worker-managed businesses

The goal is to compare the behavior of worker-managed and established businesses. Several projects have studied how employment levels and wages are determined, as well as the survival, creation, and destruction of companies or jobs, the factors that hinder the formation of new businesses, worker absenteeism, and the preferences and characteristics of those who work in these businesses.

Discrimination and the labor market

This line of research seeks, mainly through the generation of empirical evidence, to determine the presence of discrimination in the labor market against some groups of workers, particularly women. It also aims to identify the key factors that lead to the disparities between men and women in the job market.

Members

  • Javier Alejo
  • Verónica Amarante
  • Marcelo Bérgolo
  • Pablo Blanchard
  • Ignacio Cabrera
  • Paula Carrasco (coordinator)
  • Rodrigo Ceni
  • Andrés Dean
  • Sabrina Ferrando
  • Estefanía Galván
  • Cecilia Parada
  • Martina Querejeta
  • Agustina Romero

Publications (link)

Recent projects and publications

DT 15-25 Dinámica de los ingresos laborales y desigualdad en Uruguay - 1997-2015-

  • Author(s): Carrasco, Paula
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2025

DT 14-25 Retornos económicos a la formación universitaria: un análisis de ingresos laborales en Uruguay

  • Author(s): Amarante, Verónica - Carrasco, Paula - Echeberría, María Eugenia - Katzkowicz, Noemí - Querejeta, Martina
  • Research group: Labor Economics, Inequality and Poverty
  • Year: 2025

Employment effects of a social and labour inclusion programme

  • Author(s): Blanchard, Pablo - Brum, Matías - Carrasco, Paula - Parada, Cecilia - Perazzo, Ivone
  • Journal: Labour Economics
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2025

DT 15 - 24 Indicadores del mercado laboral en Uruguay: compatibilización de las encuestas de hogares

  • Author(s): Cabrera, Ignacio - Carrasco, Paula
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2024

First-stage analysis for instrumental-variables quantile regression

  • Author(s): Alejo, Javier - Galvao, Antonio F. - Montes-Rojas, Gabriel
  • Journal: The Stata Journal
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2024

Fertility responses to cash transfers in Uruguay.

  • Author(s): Parada, Cecilia
  • Journal: World Development Perspectives
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2024

Cuidados a la vejez y oferta laboral femenina en América Latina

  • Author(s): Failache, Elisa - Katzkowicz, Noemí - Méndez, Fabrizio - Parada, Cecilia - Querejeta, Martina
  • Journal: Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2024

Políticas de licencias para el cuidado de recién nacidos en Uruguay. Análisis del estado actual y de su utilización

  • Author(s): Galván, Estefanía - Parada, Cecilia - Querejeta, Martina
  • Journal: Derecho Laboral. Revista De Doctrina, Jurisprudencia E Informaciones Sociales
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2024

Worker takeovers: a comparative analysis of employee buyouts, other worker-managed firms, and conventional firms in Uruguay,

  • Author(s): Dean, Andrés
  • Journal: Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2024

Impact of female peer composition on gender norm perceptions in secondary school

  • Author(s): Querejeta, Martina
  • Journal: Feminist Economics
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2024

Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits

  • Author(s): Dean, Andrés - Fleitas, Sebastián - Zerpa, Mariana
  • Journal: The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press
  • Research group: Labor Economics
  • Year: 2024

Income inequality and complexity of the productive structure: New evidence at the world level

  • Author(s): Amarante, Verónica - Lanzilotta, Bibiana - Torres, Joaquín
  • Journal: Economic Analysis and Policy
  • Research group: Labor Economics, Macroeconomic Analysis and Trade
  • Year: 2024
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  • Home
  • About
    • Organization and objectives
    • History
    • Seminars
    • IECON Library
  • Members
    • Faculty
    • Secretary and Library
  • Research groups
    • Macroeconomic Analysis and Trade
    • Development
    • Inequality and Poverty
    • Labor Economics
    • Ethics, Justice and Economy
    • Economic history
    • Gender, Economy and Public Policies
    • Other research lines
      • Political Economy and Fiscal Policy
      • Agricultural, Environmental, and Natural Resources Economics
  • Publications
    • IECON Production
      • Short Run Economic Situation Documents
      • Student Research Documents
      • Working papers
    • Books
      • Book chapters
      • Complete works
    • Peer-reviewed publications
    • Databases
    • IECON 70 years
  • Projects
  • Diffusion
    • IECON in the media
    • Economics Department Blog
    • Events