Articulos en revistas arbitradas

Se evalúa la existencia de trampas de pobreza en Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay. Se verifica la presencia de trampas de pobreza por no convexidad en los casos de los hogares de menor nivel educativo de Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay, lo que constituye una novedad respecto a aplicaciones empíricas anteriores.

Se evalúa la existencia de trampas de pobreza en Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay con la metodología propuesta por Antman y Mckenzie (2007). Se modeliza la dinámica del ingreso de los hogares y las reacciones frente a fenómenos recesivos. Además se estudian las trayectorias de ingresos para distintos niveles educativos, así como la velocidad a la que los hogares superan situaciones de pobreza o vuelven a un nivel de equilibrio tras un choque.

The multidimensional nature of well-being is now widely recognized. However, multidimensional poverty measurement is still an expanding field of research and a consensus about the “best” composite indicator has not yet emerged. In this chapter, we provide an empirical analysis using three existing methodologies: Bourguignon and Chakravarty, Alkire and Foster , and Cheli and Lemmi.

The debate on the relationship between natural resources abundance and economic growth is still open. Our contribution to this field combines a long-run perspective (1870–2014) with the study of a peripheral country in the world economy (Uruguay).

This paper outlines a theoretical framework to study collective social capital at the local scale using social network analysis. To do so, it develops a review on empirical research that found evidence regarding the impact of networks on the performance of cities and regions.

This article presents new econometric evidence on the comparative behavior of worker cooperatives and capitalist firms, highlighting the differences in wages and employment responses.

The connection of innovation and exporting is of major interest to developing countries aiming to achieve higher growth and wellbeing. This study analyzes whether different types of innovation affect export behavior at the firm level for an unbalanced panel of Uruguayan manufacturing firms. Logistic regression and matching with difference-in-differences (MDID) techniques are applied to data from 2003 to 2012. Unlike other studies, productivity-enhancing (or cost-reducing) innovation shows a stronger correlation with exporting than product innovation, indicating that price competition is more important than quality competition for Uruguayan products in foreign markets. Furthermore, using MDID we establish a direct causal link from innovation to exporting.

Se trata de analizar diferentes opciones en materia de indicadores de competitividad, estudiando cada uno de los posibles índices y elaborando diversas series para Uruguay en el período 1980-1995. En la primera parte se analiza el marco teórico que fundamenta los indicadores de competitividad elegidos, así como otras posibilidades existentes. En la segunda parte se hace referencia a diversos tipos de indicadores, describiendo su metodología, la forma particular elegida para elaborarlos y las fuentes de información utilizadas en cada caso. En la tercera parte se presentan los diversos índices elaborados, y se realizan algunas reflexiones finales a partir de la observación de los resultados obtenidos. Por último se incluyen, en un anexo estadístico, las series construidas a partir de las metodologías descritas.

Argentine export growth before the First World War is considered one of the most relevant variables in order to understand the main characteristics of Argentina's long-run modern economic growth properly.

This paper analyzes international collaboration networks associated with invention and patenting in Latin America between 1970 and 2017. We use data from US patent records retrieved from the Patents View platform. We select patents with actors located in Latin American countries and create networks where nodes are countries and links represent collaboration among inventors and among patent owners located in different countries. We apply various social network analysis methods...

This article aims to analyse and compare the patent collaboration networks of Spain and Sweden during the Second Industrial Revolution, a key period for technological and industrial development in several economies and the distinct development paths taken by these two countries.

Empirical literature analyzing the effect of pay-for-performance programs (P4P) for healthcare providers on maternal care and newborn health outcomes is scarce. In 2008, Uruguay’s Ministry of Public Health implemented a P4P called Metas Asistenciales (Healthcare Goals), a country-wide program that grants healthcare providers an economic incentive for complying with certain maternal and newborn healthcare goals. Health organizations use these funds to provide maternal and child health services. Using administrative records and a difference-in-difference methodology, we evaluate the effect of the Metas Asistenciales program on maternal and newborn health outcomes. ..