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Youth Unemployment in Uruguay
Author:
Mr. Jose L. Torresnull

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IMF Working Papers
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2020: Issue 281
Language:
English
Publication Date:
11 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513563947.001
ISBN:
9781513563947
ISSN:
1018-5941
Pages:
26
Keywords:
labor market; youth unemployment; labor rigidities; synthetic panel.; WP; youth labor market prospect; labor market trajectory; labor-market challenge; labor market characteristic; labor market rigidity; unemployment gap
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Uruguay enjoys favorable social outcomes, and its labor indicators are comparable to other Latin American countries, but its youth unemployment is one of the highest in the world. To help understand this duality, we employ synthetic panels from repeated household surveys for LA6 countries from 1990-2018 to investigate the determinants of the youth-to-adult unemployment gap. We find that a large part of the Uruguayan gap cannot be explained by standard variables, which opens the possibility that other uncontrolled factors, including labor market institutions, might be at play.
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IMF Working Papers
ISSN:
1018-5941
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund
Volume 2020: Issue 281