TY - GEN AU - Cassoni, Adriana AU - Allen, Steven G. AU - Labadie, Gastón J. TI - Unions and Employment in Uruguay PY - 2011 Y1 - 2011/09/23 DO - 10.18235/0011241 AB - This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period when unions were banned (1973-1984), then legalized with tripartite bargaining (1984-1991) followed by industry-wide or firm-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The paper begins with background on the economy, the labor market, and collective bargaining in Uruguay (Section II), followed by a brief theoretical overview on unions and labor demand (Section III) and a description of the data (Section IV). The labor demand results (Section V) indicate a structural shift in the labor demand function occurred at about the same time as the return of collective bargaining. UR - https://doi.org/10.18235/0011241 ER -