Calidad del empleo y crecimiento económico: El caso de Uruguay

María Porras

No 17-17, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Instituto de Economía - IECON

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: quality of employment; economic growth; synthetic index; ARDL model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C43 I31 J23 J24 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2017-12
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