All publications: Uruguay
Technical Report / 56
Working time and well-being: contributions of Time Use Surveys to the analysis of the labour market in Latin America
This technical report analyzes evidence from seven Latin American countries and demonstrates how time-use surveys can provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between working hours, caregiving responsibilities, commuting, and well-being,...
Research Brief
Measuring the greenness of jobs in emerging economies: A big data text analysis approach
This brief presents a new big data and NLP-based approach to measure how green jobs are in emerging economies using a refined ILO green dictionary. It provides practical evidence on green skills, job quality and wages to inform labour market and...
Technical note
How many hours are worked in Latin America and the Caribbean? Indicators of working time and its organisation
Latin America and the Caribbean
Survey on workers on web-based digital platforms
This report summarises a survey of 1,153 digital platform workers in Latin America and the Caribbean. It analyses their profile, working conditions and income, revealing precariousness, informality and lack of social protection. 52% use these...
Collective bargaining models in Argentina Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay
The study compares collective bargaining systems in the Southern Cone, examining their legal bases and practical functioning, with the aim of identifying good practices that contribute to strengthening labour rights in the region.
ILO Working Paper 136
Directed Search, Wages, and Non- Wage Amenities: Evidence from an Online Job Board
This paper investigates how job seekers in Uruguay direct their search based on posted wages and non-wage amenities, using online job board data. It examines occupational differences in application behavior and tests these patterns with a...
Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Number 28): Towards the creation of better jobs in the post-pandemic era
This edition of the Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean report, jointly prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), emphasizes that three years...
Digitalization of employers and business membership organizations
Where are employers’ organizations on their journey toward digitalization? A look at Uruguay
This technical note is part of the collection of notable experiences in the digitisation of business enterprises and employers' organizations (EBMOs) in Latin America, identified in the research process carried out by the ILO Bureau for Employers'...
Publication
A Review of Wage Setting through Collective Bargaining
Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Number 27): Labour productivity in Latin America
This edition of the Employment Situation in Latin America and the Caribbean report, jointly prepared twice-yearly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), the...
Labour Overview series for Latin America and the Caribbean 2021
2021 Labour Overview, Latin America and the Caribbean - Executive Summary
The 2021 Employment Outlook describes a mixed bag scenario for employment and suggests that pre-pandemic levels will be reached by 2023 or even 2024.
Financial education for entrepreneurs and small business owners in Uruguay – Trainee's booklet (in Spanish)
This booklet, available in Spanish and adapted to the Uruguayan context, is designed for anyone seeking to improve the organization and planning of their personal financial resources. It may be distributed to participants in financial education...
Social Protection Spotlight
Extending social protection to the cultural and creative sector
Workers in the cultural and creative sector often lack effective access to social protection.
ILO working paper 28
Social Protection in the Cultural and Creative Sector - Country Practices and Innovations
State of skills in Uruguay
Reflections on work. Perspectives from the Southern Cone of Latin America on the occasion of the ILO Centenary
The articles in this book explore many of the ILO’s core topics and how they have evolved over time. Some topics have persisted as concerns since the time of the ILO’s creation, whereas others – like just transition to environmental sustainability –...
Guide for Mainstreaming of Occupational Safety and Health in Vocational training programmes
SafeYouth@Work - Project Results
Building a Generation of safe and healthy workers
Electronic registration of domestic work in Uruguay
Social Protection Floors. Volume 3. Governance and Financing
The volumes on “Social Protection Floors” present best practices and experiences from countries that are useful for South-South learning, for practitioners and to provide the basis for more informed policy-making.