Guillermo Cruces

Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)

Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y

Sociales, Calle 6 e/47 y 48

La Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires 1900

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Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

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Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 Apr 2011
Guillermo Cruces, Ricardo Perez-Truglia and Martin Tetaz
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), University of California, Berkeley and Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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perceptions of income rank, subjective probabilities, subjective income distribution, relative income, information, field experiment, redistribution

Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5699
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 17 May 2011
Guillermo Cruces and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and University of California, Berkeley
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preferences for redistribution, limited information, perceptions of income distribution, field experiment

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Partisan Interactions: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States

Number of pages: 99 Posted: 23 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2015
Ricardo Perez-Truglia and Guillermo Cruces
University of California, Berkeley and Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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social interactions, political participation, political polarization, campaign contributions, field experiment.

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Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

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Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 03 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2020
Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Guillermo Cruces, Matias Giaccobasso and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Universidad de la Republica - Instituto de Economía, Universidad de la Republica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Berkeley
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tax, evasion, audits, penalties, frictions

Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

NBER Working Paper No. w23631
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 04 Aug 2017
Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Guillermo Cruces, Matias Giaccobasso and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Universidad de la Republica - Instituto de Economía, Universidad de la Republica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Berkeley
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Tax Audits as Scarecrows. Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12335
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 21 May 2019
Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Guillermo Cruces, Matias Giaccobasso and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Universidad de la Republica - Instituto de Economía, Universidad de la Republica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Berkeley
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tax, evasion, audits, penalties, frictions

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Inflation Expectations, Learning and Supermarket Prices: Evidence from Survey Experiments

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Inflation Expectations, Learning and Supermarket Prices: Evidence from Survey Experiments

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 23 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2016
Alberto Cavallo, Guillermo Cruces and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and University of California, Berkeley
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inflation expectations, field experiment, rational inattention, supermarket

Inflation Expectations, Learning and Supermarket Prices

NBER Working Paper No. w20576
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 14 Oct 2014
Alberto Cavallo, Guillermo Cruces and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and University of California, Berkeley
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Generalizing the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Nov 2003
Guillermo Cruces and Sebastian Galiani
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and University of Maryland - Department of Economics
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Causality, Internal and External Validity, Childbearing and Female Labor Supply

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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework

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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Nov 2017
Pablo Acosta, Sebastian Galiani, Guillermo Cruces and Leonardo Gasparini
World Bank, University of Maryland - Department of Economics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Faculty of Economics
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Returns to skills, Latin America

Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5921
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Leonardo Gasparini, Sebastian Galiani, Guillermo Cruces and Pablo Acosta
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Faculty of Economics, University of Maryland - Department of Economics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and World Bank
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Labor Markets, Labor Policies, Economic Theory & Research, Inequality, Tertiary Education

Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6244
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 31 Dec 2011
Leonardo Gasparini, Sebastian Galiani, Guillermo Cruces and Pablo Acosta
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Faculty of Economics, University of Maryland - Department of Economics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and World Bank
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skill premia, supply and demand of labor, income inequality, Latin America

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Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries - Experimental Evidence from Latin America

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Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries - Experimental Evidence from Latin America

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Mar 2010
Maria Laura Alzua, Guillermo Cruces and Laura Ripani
CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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welfare programs, income support, labor supply, adult work incentives, conditional cash transfers, randomized control trials, developing countries

Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Latin America

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6959
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 Nov 2012
Maria Laura Alzua, Guillermo Cruces and Laura Ripani
CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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welfare programs, income support, labor supply, work incentives, conditional cash transfers, randomized control trials, developing countries

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Youth Training Programs Beyond Employment. Experimental Evidence from Argentina

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 May 2014 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2014
Maria Laura Alzua, Guillermo Cruces and Carolina Lopez
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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random assignment, labor training programs, youth unemployment

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Gender Interactions in Wage Bargaining: Evidence from an Online Field Experiment

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2017
Hernan Galperin, Guillermo Cruces and Catrihel Greppi
USC, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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Gender, Discrimination, Field Experiment, Online Labor

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Payroll Taxes, Wages and Employment: Identification Through Policy Changes

Labour Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Jan 2010
Guillermo Cruces, Sebastian Galiani and Susana Kidyba
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), University of Maryland - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Payroll taxes, Employment and wages

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Quality of Life in Buenos Aires Neighborhoods: Hedonic Price Regressions and the Life Satisfaction Approach

IDB Working Paper No. 241
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 20 Apr 2011
Guillermo Cruces, Andres Ham and Martin Tetaz
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Independent and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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The Anatomy of Behavioral Responses to Social Assistance When Informal Employment Is High

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The Anatomy of Behavioral Responses to Social Assistance When Informal Employment Is High

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 22 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2020
Marcelo Bergolo and Guillermo Cruces
Universidad de la Republica - Instituto de Economía and Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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welfare policy, labor supply, registered employment, labor informality

The Anatomy of Behavioral Responses to Social Assistance When Informal Employment is High

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10197
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 19 Sep 2016
Marcelo Bergolo and Guillermo Cruces
Universidad de la Republica - Instituto de Economía and Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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welfare policy, labor supply, registered employment, labor informality

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Fertility and Female Labor Supply in Latin America: New Causal Evidence

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 26 Nov 2013
Guillermo Cruces and Sebastian Galiani
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and University of Maryland - Department of Economics
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Causality, Childbearing and Female Labor Supply in Developing Countries

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Misperceptions About Tax Audits

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 Feb 2018
Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Guillermo Cruces, Matias Giaccobasso and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Universidad de la Republica - Instituto de Economía, Universidad de la Republica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of California, Berkeley
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tax, evasion, audits, penalties

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Intra-Generational Mobility and Repeated Cross-Sections: A Three-Country Validation Exercise

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5916
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Guillermo Cruces, Peter F. Lanjouw, Leonardo Lucchetti, Elizaveta Perova, Renos Vakis and Mariana Viollaz
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank, World Bank, The World Bank and Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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Services & Transfers to Poor, Poverty Reduction Strategies, Scientific Research & Science Parks, Science Education, Housing & Human Habitats

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Vulnerability to Poverty in Latin America - Empirical Evidence from Cross-Sectional Data and Robustness Analysis with Panel Data

Chronic Poverty Research Centre Working Paper No. 170
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 07 Dec 2010
Leonardo Gasparini, Guillermo Cruces, Marcelo Bergolo and Andrés Ham
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Faculty of Economics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Universidad de la Republica - Instituto de Economía and Universidad de los Andes, Colombia - School of Government
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Vulnerability, Panel Data, Latin America

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Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina's Downturns

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6096
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Nov 2011
Guillermo Cruces, Pablo Alfredo Gluzmann and Luis Felipe López-Calva
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Centro de Estudios Economicos Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) - Universidad Nacional de La Plata and World Bank
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crisis, infant mortality, maternal mortality, low birth weight, poverty, Argentina

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Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs: Evidence from an Employment-Based Benefit Extension

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Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs: Evidence from an Employment-Based Benefit Extension

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8198
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 May 2014
Marcelo Bergolo and Guillermo Cruces
Universidad de la Republica - Instituto de Economía and Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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labor supply, work incentives, social insurance, tax evasion

Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs: Evidence from an Employment Based Benefit Extension

Posted: 29 Sep 2012
Marcelo Bergolo and Guillermo Cruces
Universidad de la Republica - Instituto de Economía and Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)

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labor supply, work incentives, social insurance, tax evasion

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Are There Ethnic Inequality Traps in Education? Empirical Evidence for Brazil and Chile

PEP Working Paper serie 2012-05
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 21 May 2018 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2018
Guillermo Cruces, Marcelo Bergolo, Adriana Conconi and Andrés Ham
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Universidad de la Republica - Instituto de Economía, Independent and Universidad de los Andes, Colombia - School of Government
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inequality trap, education, ethnicity, opportunities, mobility, Brazil, Chile

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Long Run Effects of Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Argentina

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9784
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 07 Mar 2016
Maria Laura Alzua, Guillermo Cruces and Carolina Lopez
CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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youth labor training programs, youth unemployment, field experiment

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Living Up to Expectations: How Job Training Made Women Better Off and Men Worse Off

NBER Working Paper No. w23264
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Mar 2017
Paloma Acevedo, Guillermo Cruces, Paul J. Gertler and Sebastian Martinez
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness
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Information, Price, and Barriers to Adoption and Usage of Mobile Money Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Gambia

Partnership for Economic Policy Working Paper No. 2020-17
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Aug 2020
Guillermo Cruces, Jawara Hamidou, Adama Touray and Fatoumata Singhateh
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of The Gambia and University of The Gambia
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Mobile wallet, barriers to adoption and usage, developing countries, Gambia

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Low Take-Up and Financial Inclusion:Experimental Evidence from Argentina’s Cash Transfers

Partnership for Economic Policy Working Paper No. 2020-22
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 26 Oct 2020
Guillermo Cruces, Veronica Amarante, Lucía Ramírez and Maria Josefina Baez
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), United Nations - Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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take-up of social benefits, financial inclusion

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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework

NBER Working Paper No. w24015
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Nov 2017
Sebastian Galiani, Guillermo Cruces, Pablo Acosta and Leonardo Gasparini
University of Maryland - Department of Economics, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), World Bank and Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Faculty of Economics
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Learning from Potentially-Biased Statistics: Household Inflation Perceptions and Expectations in Argentina

NBER Working Paper No. w22103
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 Mar 2016
Alberto Cavallo, Guillermo Cruces and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and University of California, Berkeley
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Informality and Contributory and Non‐Contributory Programmes: Recent Reforms of the Social‐Protection System in Uruguay

Development Policy Review, Vol. 31, Issue 5, pp. 531-551, 2013
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 06 Aug 2013
Guillermo Cruces and Marcelo Bergolo
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and Universidad de la Republica - Instituto de Economía
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Social‐protection systems, labour‐market informality, Latin America

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Long‐Run Effects of Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Argentina

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 54, Issue 4, pp. 1839-1859, 2016
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 31 Aug 2016
Maria Laura Alzua, Guillermo Cruces and Carolina Lopez
Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) and Brown University
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