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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)Las mujeres chilenas exhiben una de las tasas de participación laboral más bajas de Latinoamérica, a pesar del crecimiento económico de las últimas décadas y de tener el mayor nivel de escolaridad de la región después ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)With the exemption of adopting a foreign currency, Chile has experienced virtually all the menu of options of exchange rate policies in the last 40 years. The quest for a reasonable exchange rate policy has been inspired ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-05)We study a production economy where all consumption goods are indivisible at the individual level but perfectly divisible at the overall economy level. In order to facilitate the exchange in this setting, we introduce a ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2007-07)The objective of this paper is to study the Chilean labor market and determine the presence or absence of gender discrimination. In order to break past the limitations of earlier works, an experimental design is used, ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2008)Research and development (R&D) has been considered a source of growth in productivity starting from Schultz (1953). Since then, significant research has studied this relationship at the firm, industry and country level. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)This paper develops and tests a model of growth in that emphasizes the introduction of new export as the main source of growth in countries that are far within the world technological frontier and that depend for growth ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015)While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, the empirical literature has struggled to identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. Previous research typically derived revenue ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)El cambio en la estructura etárea en Chile se asocia a caídas en la natalidad y al envejecimiento de la población, ambos factores que inciden en forma importante en la oferta laboral. En este trabajo descomponemos la ...
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Female Labor Force Participation and Informal Care of Adults: Evidence for a middle-income country (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)The provision of elderly care is an issue of increasing importance in Latin American countries because of a aging population, decrease in household size, and increased complexity of care. Thus, it is important to analyze ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)We use a specially designed survey to evaluate the effect of several public policies on female labor force participation in Chile. First, we estimate a self-selection model to find the determinants of female labor ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016-03)Despite the fact that female political participation has been steadily growing over time with unseen effects on public policy, women representation in politics is substantially lower than their proportion in society. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)The objective of this study is to characterize the fertility trends in Chile in recent decades, and identify the main factors underlying them. This study is based on an in-depth analysis of the available data: the population ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011)We show that the tax system in Chile is insufficient, inefficient and inequitable. Insufficient because it does not yield enough revenues for the state to promote human capital development and to face poverty in a more ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)Entre las reformas “neo-liberales” más conflictivas es la que se refiere a la flexibilidad laboral. Para muchos es la gran reforma faltante; para otros, es una forma solapada de eliminar las conquistas de la clase trabajadora. ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)El Fondo de Infraestructura (FI) se constituye mediante el valor presente los ingresos netos futuros provenientes de los cobros a usuarios de las concesiones de obras públicas, una vez que se vuelvan a ...
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(Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2016)We exploit the exogenous characteristic of random freshmen course assignment in a large Chilean university to identify the causal effect of teachers and their qualitative characteristics over students’ major choice. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2008)There is a broad consensus that macroeconomic “fundamentals” are a most relevant variable to enhance economic development. However, there is wide misunderstanding about (i) which are the “sound macroeconomic fundamentals", ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development clearly recognizes that poverty is more than just the lack of a sufficient amount of income. However, some scholars argue that an income-based measure of poverty ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)The first time in which the International Adult Literacy Survey was carried out in a developing country was in 1998 in Chile. The survey measures the effective skills of the population over 15 years of age in the ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2008)El objetivo del presente trabajo es escribir un documento cuyo contenido se refiere a los fundamentos de la economía. Fue especialmente preparado para ser utilizado en un curso de introducción a la economía de mercado, ...
