Verónica Amarante

Biographic Data

ID3664564
NAMEVerónica Amarante
GIVEN NAMESVerónica
FAMILY NAMEAmarante
SIGNATUREAMARANTE V
AFFILIATIONSEconomic Commission for Latin America and the Carribbean Montevideo Uruguay
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Ideology and Economist's Views on Inequality and Discrimination: Evidence From Uruguay

    Open AccessAmarante, Verónica Amarante et al.ARTICLEKyklos2026

    This paper investigates how the ideological profiles of Uruguayan economists relate to their opinions regarding inequality and discrimination. Based on survey data, we explore the links between three ideological dimensions—political orientation, sexist attitudes (benevolent and hostile), and pro‐market beliefs—and their opinions. We find that right‐wing political ideology, hostile sexism, and pro‐market attitudes are consistently associated with …

  • Social Protection Coverage in Latin America: Aggregate and Individual-level Transformations

    Open AccessAmarante, Verónica Amarante et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Development2026References: 7

    This paper analyzes the evolution of Latin American social protection systems during the inclusionary period from the beginning of the 2000s to the mid-2010s. Using microdata from household surveys across 17 countries, we build a traditional composite measure that provides a macro-level valuation of social protection (the Social Protection Aggregate Index, SPAI). We also propose an innovative index at the individual level (social protection depri…

  • Poverty in Latin America: Feelings/Perceptions vs Material Conditions

    Open AccessAmarante, Verónica Amarante et al.BOOKPoverty in Latin America2025

    This Element derives subjective poverty lines for seven Latin American countries based on a Minimum Income Question included in household expenditure surveys. It compares poverty incidence under the subjective and objective approach, finding subjective poverty is larger than objective for all countries. People identified as poor are generally poor by both measures or only subjective poor, although patterns of overlapping differ between countries.…

  • Nouvel éclairage sur la relation entre inégalités et informalité à partir de l'exemple latino‐américain

    Open AccessAmarante, Verónica Amarante et al.ARTICLERevue internationale du Travail2023

    De nombreuses économies en développement affichent à la fois de fortes inégalités des revenus et un emploi largement informel. Malgré cette conjonction frappante, la relation entre les deux phénomènes est peu étudiée, en particulier pour l'Amérique latine. Les auteurs soulignent la complexité de ce lien et isolent plusieurs facteurs susceptibles d'influer en la matière. Ils testent leur modèle conceptuel empiriquement avec des données de panel po…

  • The challenge of income inequality in Latin America

    Economic Commission For Latin America And The Caribbean, Amarante et al.ARTICLECEPAL review2023

    Seventy-five years after the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) was founded, reducing the concentration of income and wealth remains one of the key challenges in Latin America. This article firstly reviews the contributions made by ECLAC and Latin American structuralism to the analysis and measurement of the income distribution. It then describes the main trends of inequality in the region from 1990 to the present, an…

  • Consensos, disensos e ideología: El caso de los economistas en Uruguay

    Open AccessAmarante, Verónica Amarante et al.ARTICLERevista Desarrollo y Sociedad2023

    This article studies the consensus among economists in Uruguay regarding aset of economic propositions. The findings indicate that the levels of consensus in Uruguay are comparatively lower than in other countries, although thelevels of dissensus are also lower, resulting in a modest level of agreementoverall. The propositions related to discrimination and, to a lesser extent, environmental issues demonstrate the highest levels of agreement. Ther…

  • Aging and Productivity in Latin America

    Open AccessAmarante, Verónica Amarante et al.ARTICLELatin American Research Review2021

    This article considers how changes in Latin American countries’ age structures may affect their long-term economic performance through the impact on labor supply, dependency ratios, and productivity. It analyzes fourteen Latin American countries using population projections for 2015–2050 and considering three scenarios. The basic scenario assumes constant sex- and age-specific behavior concerning employment, while the other two scenarios imply in…

  • Poverty and inequality in Latin America’s research agenda: A bibliometric review

    Open AccessAmarante, Verónica Amarante et al.ARTICLEDevelopment Policy Review2020

  • More unequal or less? A review of global, regional and national income inequality

    Amarante, Verónica Amarante et al.ARTICLECEPAL review2018

    This article presents a multi-perspective discussion of trends in income inequality. Recent evidence from many sources shows that global income inequality is high and relatively stable, with the main changes being driven by developments in China and India. In developed countries, the trend has been towards higher levels of inequality over the last thirty years; and this has also been true of developing countries in the past decade, with the excep…

  • The gender gap in pensions in Latin America

    Open AccessAmarante, Verónica Amarante et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Security…2017Cited by: 11References: 1

    Lower female lifetime labour market participation rates, greater interruptions during their working lives, and wage gaps contribute to create gender gaps in pensions at the time of retirement. The design of social security systems may reinforce or attenuate these gaps. This article provides new evidence on gender gaps in access to pensions and in pension income in four Southern Cone countries in Latin America and analyses their evolution between …

  • Demographic Change in Uruguay: Economic Opportunities and Challenges

    Rafael Rofman, Amarante et al.BOOKDemographic Change in Uruguay2016

    Uruguay’s population is slowly aging, driven by the demographic transition that started early in the \n20th century. While this reflects significant improvements in mortality and fertility trends, it also creates \nimportant challenges for the fiscal sustainability of some social policies and for sustaining medium- and \nlong-term economic growth. Uruguay is going through the “demographic dividend” stage of this process \nas the proportion of the…

  • Desigualdad e Informalidad - Un Análisis de Cinco Experiencias Latinoamericanas: Un Análisis de Cinco Experiencias Latinoamericanas

    United Nations, Verónica Amarante et al.BOOKDesigualdad e Informalidad - Un…2015

    En el presente documento se reflexiona sobre el papel que ha desempeñado el mercado laboral en la disminución de la desigualdad en América Latina durante la primera década del siglo XXI, poniendo el foco en el vínculo entre el notorio proceso de reducción de la informalidad del empleo y la caída de la desigualdad, hechos que han ocurrido simultáneamente en la región. Los estudios nacionales que integran el presente volumen confirman que los retor…

  • El diseño del seguro de desempleo y sus efectos: Evidencia para Uruguay

    Open AccessAmarante, Verónica Amarante et al.ARTICLERevista Desarrollo y Sociedad2013Cited by: 1References: 2

    Using unemployment insurance records and social security labor histories, we provide evidence of the impacts of recent changes in the unemployment insurance system of Uruguay. We estimate the effects on unemployment duration and post unemployment wages. Two main changes are considered: the modification in the scheme of payments —from a lump sum during six months to a decreasing system of payments during the same period— and extension in the durat…

  • La relevancia de la desigualdad en la medición del desarrollo humano. Uruguay 1991-2002

    Open AccessAmarante, Verónica Amarante et al.ARTICLERevista Desarrollo y Sociedad2010

    Sen’s capability approach considers that the main goal of the development process is the expansion of individual and social achievements in a wide set of dimensions (Alkire, 2002). Based in this perspective, in the early years of the 1990 decade, UNDP launched the Human Development Index (HDI) to reflect, monitor and rank countries. This index goes far beyond traditional cross-country rankings based exclusively on GDP, as it considers three key d…

  • Pobreza, red de protección social y situación de la infancia en Uruguay

    Amarante, Verónica Amarante et al.REPORT2005

    En este trabajo se analiza la evolución de la pobreza y de la respuesta de la red de protección social en Uruguay entre 1991 y 2003, enfatizando en el período 1999 a 2003. Primero se presenta una descripción de la evolución de la pobreza y la desigualdad en el período. Se identifican los sectores de población más vulnerables y se realiza un ejercicio de determinación de pobreza cíclica y pobreza estructural. A su vez se busca identificar los sect…

  • La segregación ocupacional de género y las diferencias en las remuneraciones de los asalariados privados. Uruguay, 1990-2000

    Open AccessAmarante, Verónica Amarante et al.ARTICLEDesarrollo Económico2004Cited by: 1References: 1