The purpose of this paper is the identification of issues that help to explain the origin of a Labor Relations Systems in this country. It includes the analysis of the different components and their links with the social, economic and political context.

It took place a very deep labor reform and resulted a new Labor Relations System Regulated and Participativo. The Washington Consensus approach may consider that there were new rigidities; but investment, gross internal product, employment and wages, continued growing. As results, the...

The diverse wage setting mechanisms prevailing in the different Uruguayan economic activities by 2004 are here summarised. The precise knowledge of these mechanisms is relevant in itself, but it is also a key element when chosing the adequate theoretical framework to perform applied research...