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Calidad del empleo y crecimiento económico: El caso de Uruguay

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  • Sylvina Porras

    (Universidad de la República (Uruguay). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración. Instituto de Economí­a)

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This research aims to contribute to knowledge about the quality of employment in Uruguay. The multi-dimensionality of the problem is addressed by constructing a dependent employment quality index (Bad Employment Index -IME-) using the methodology of Alkire and Foster (2001). The IME summarizes information on quality in four dimensions of the problem: income, social protection, hours worked and productivity and development opportunities. The EMI value for the period 1991Q1 - 2016Q4 was calculated using data from the INE Continuous Household Survey. Its evolution in comparison with GDP shows that it is not enough to register economic growth to improve the quality of occupations. It is only since the last quarter of 2005 that there has been a clear improvement in the quality of salaried employment, coinciding with years of uninterrupted economic growth, but also with greater Government intervention in the rules of the labour market. This relationship is estimated using an ARDL modelling with the cointegration analysis proposed by Pesaran et al. (2001). Based on the results, it is concluded that the evolution of GDP is a significant variable in order to reduce bad jobs, but that the changes since the end of 2005 also had an impact on improving the quality of occupations.

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  • Sylvina Porras, 2017. "Calidad del empleo y crecimiento económico: El caso de Uruguay," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 17-17, Instituto de Economía - IECON.
    • Handle: RePEc:ulr:wpaper:dt-17-17
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    Keywords

    quality of employment; economic growth; synthetic index; ARDL model;
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    JEL classification:

    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions

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