Income Poverty in Argentina and Bahía Blanca: Reference estimates and methodological issues by Santos, María Emma

“…In this paper we estimate the indigence and poverty by income in 2014 and 2015 for the total urban agglomera-tions of Argentina and for the particular case of Bahía Blanca, an intermediate city, eminently industrial and com-mercial, with high levels of recent unemployment and indigence. It is found that by the middle of 2015 one in ten people was in a situation of indigence and almost three out of ten were in poverty, which is equivalent to approxi-mately 11.6 million people. …”
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Convergencia y flexibilidad de salarios en Argentina by Blanco, Valeria, Cristina, Alejandra Daniela, Figueras, Alberto José, Iturralde, Ivan

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The Credibility and the Macroeconomic Policy after the abandonment of Convertibility by Visintini, Alfredo Aldo, Rosales, Julio

“…The analysis concluded that: 1) the announcements and macroeconomic policy measures taken to deal with the crisis were implemented in a context of total loss of credibility of the authorities after the abandonment of the Convertibility, 2) the response of the In the face of such a loss of credibility, the government took fiscal and monetary adjustments to extremes in order to contain the exchange volatility and reverse the expectations of hyperinflation with a huge cost in terms of falling output, increased unemployment and poverty, and 3) the reversion of the expectations of the economic agents, which manifested itself in the containment of the volatility of the exchange rate, shows that the strong fiscal and monetary adjustment had a much greater weight than the reputational factors in the formation of the expectations…”
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SUEÑO DE PIBE… DE OFICIOS, CLASIFICACIONES Y DISTINCIONES EN VILLA SANGRE Y SOL (CÓRDOBA, ARGENTINA) / Sueño de pibe… Crafts, classifications and distinctions in Villa Sangre y Sol... by Bermúdez, Natalia Verónica

“…Asimismo, se desnaturaliza el supuesto de que esta problemática ha sido instaurada recientemente en nuestra sociedad, puesto que las categorías que designan las actividades de los carreros tradicionales, nuevos carreros, cartoneros y cirujas fluctúan poniendo en tensión problemas coyunturales tanto como entramados socio-históricos.Palabras claves: Oficios, carreros, distinciones, trabajo, relaciones sociales.AbstractIn the context of labor market transformations whose imprint was deepened in Argentina in the nineties, with high rates of unemployment and the rise in the price of materials such as cardboard, large number of individuals turned to the “cartoneo” and collecting garbage in the streets. …”
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ON THE EXISTENCE OF A MASS OF RESERVE AMONG HIGHER EDUCATION GRADUATES. ITS WEIGHT AND COMPOSITION IN ARGENTINA, 2010-2012 by Donaire, Ricardo Martín

“…This situation is most openly presented in the possibility of unemployment among higher graduates, although it could also be extended to all those situations in which the categories that were trained to perform intellectual functions cannot be effectively employed in those activities. …”
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Sueño de pibe… Crafts, classifications and distinctions in Villa Sangre y Sol (Córdoba, Argentina) by Bermúdez, Natalia Verónica

“…In the context of labor market transformations whose imprint was deepened in Argentina in the nineties, with high rates of unemployment and the rise in the price of materials such as cardboard, large number of individuals turned to the “cartoneo” and collecting garbage in the streets. …”
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A CAPITALISM THAT NEUTRALIZES THE CRITIQUE? THE DISCOURSES OF NEW MANAGEMENT IN FRONT OF THE INDICTMENTS TO THE “LABOUR SOCIETY” by Pagura, Nicolás Germinal

“…Habermas and Gorz are two of the theorists who have argued in this context that developed societies transit a model in which necessary labor time decreases inevitably, and unemployment and job insecurity become structural. Nevertheless, this will be seen as an opportunity, because they understand that labor would have ceased to be the place where individuals could realize themselves, even surpassed capitalism. …”
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In Memóriam: Carlos Vido Kesman by Frediani, Ramón

“…A century ago, his parents came from the distant Kingdom of Montenegro, possibly fleeing that troubled Balkan region because of its war against the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1914-1916) and the Turkish-Greek war (1919-1922), joining millions of European immigrants who, because of hunger, war or unemployment, fled to Argentina in those years. Tito Kesman was born on 7 March 1941 in Corzuela, Province of Chaco, an agricultural colony made up of Yugoslav, Polish and Bulgarian migrants.He graduated as Public Accountant (1964), Lic. in Economic Sciences (1968) and finally Dr. in Economic Sciences (1970), at the National University of Cordoba (UNC). …”
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Country program evaluation. Argentina 2016-2019 by Haarsager, Ulrike, Huppi, Monika, Linares, Ana Maria, Sartori, Juan José Pompilio, Rodrigo, María Fernanda, Rose, Jonathan, Infanzón, Michelle, Niembro, Rasec, Pineda, Astrid, Rojas-Hosse, Andrea, Rojas-Asqui, Xiomara

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