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    • Landerretche Moreno, Óscar (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)
      This paper is devoted to the construction of the panel and econometric use of the first labor panel database to study workplace creation and destruction in Chile. For local interest, the main feature of the paper is that ...
    • Cortés, Tomás; Grau Veloso, Nicolás; Rivera Cayupi, Jorge (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)
      Although there is debate about whether juvenile incarceration deters future crime, it is a common practice worldwide. We contribute to this debate by using Chilean data to assess the causal impact of different types of ...
    • Bravo Ortega, Claudio; Muñoz, Leonardo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-07)
      Governments in every country are concerned about the local economic development within each country’s region. In this vein, the case of mining industry draws attention in its trend of establishing enclave economies ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo; Heresi, Rodrigo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-09)
      Ante el contagio de la crisis financiera internacional, la economía chilena experimentó una intensa reducción del precio del cobre y de los influjos de capitales. Consecuentemente, la demanda agregada y el empleo de ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-08)
      Análisis de la política de balance estructural fiscal en Chile, logros, limitaciones y propuestas para mejorar su contribución a la estabilidad macroeconómica real.
    • Ruiz-Tagle Venero, Jaime; Troncoso, Pablo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)
      Individuals’ labor market performance can be affected directly by their mental health through labor market participation and productivity. Moreover, poor mental health of workers limits labor mobility and hence efficiency ...
    • Egaña del Sol, Pablo; Micco Aguayo, Alejandro (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011)
      After the "Lost Decade" Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) initiated a complex reform process. Democracies returned to the continent and many countries moved away from the import substitution model (see Table 1). The ...
    • Larrañaga Jiménez, Osvaldo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)
      The purpose of the study is to analyze the trends in the labor market participation of women between 1958 and 2003. Two main sources of primary data are used: the Employment Survey of the University of Chile, which ...
    • Bucarey, Alonso; Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Muñoz, Pablo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)
      This paper studies the labor market returns to a state guaranteed loan (SGL) used to finance university degrees. Using administrative data from Chile and a regression discontinuity design, we show that nine years after ...
    • Karnani Bhagwan, Mohit (Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2015)
      I exploit the exogenous characteristic of a natural disaster occurred in Chile in order to explain its effects on general unemployment over affected and unaffected regions of the country in a mid-run timespan of 5 measured ...
    • Correa, Sofía; Torres Martínez, Juan Pablo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      We characterize the existence and the essential stability of Weak Pareto-Nash and Pareto-Nash equilibria in multi-objective generalized games with a continuum of players.
    • Cominetti Cotti-Cometti, Roberto; Díaz Maureira, Juan; Rivera Cayupi, Jorge (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014)
      This paper mainly concerns the the asymptotic properties of the BLOP matching estimator introduced by D´ıaz, Rau & Rivera (Forthcoming), showing that this estimator of the ATE attains the standard limit properties, and ...
    • Bravo Urrutia, David; Mitchell, Olivia S.; Todd, Petra E. (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)
      Competition across money managers, along with market entry, in theory could ensure that capital market remains competitive. But in Chile, which has had a privatized pension system for 25 years, high rates of switching ...
    • Sanhueza, Ricardo; Castro, Rodrigo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1999)
      En 1990 las condiciones de operación del sistema de transporte público en Santiago se habían deteriorado considerablemente. Existía una total desarticulación de los recorridos, una alta congestión, un bajo grado de ...
    • Martínez Alvear, Claudia; Sahm, Claudia (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2009)
      Chileans with more knowledge about the pension system more actively contribute to and manage their individual retirement accounts. This positive association between system knowledge and retirement saving remains even ...
    • Iraola, Miguel A.; Torres Martínez, Juan Pablo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)
      This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model with default and collateral requirements. In contrast with previous literature, our model allows for liquidity contractions and general prepayment specifications. ...
    • Gutiérrez C., Pablo; López Vega, Ramón; Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-10)
      This paper shows one important result, namely, that corporate tax systems that allow at least for two sources of investment tax deductions (e.g., accelerated arbitrary investment depreciation and deductibility of part ...
    • Araujo, Aloisio; Páscoa, Mário; Torres Martínez, Juan Pablo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2008)
      When infinite-lived agents trade long-lived assets secured by durable goods, equilibrium exists without any additional debt constraints or uniform impatience conditions on agents' characteristics. Also, regardless of ...
    • Larraín Ríos, Guillermo; Ballesteros, Simón; García, Sebastián (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      Una de las principales falencias del sistema de pensiones chileno es el bajo monto de pensiones. En este artículo se presenta una propuesta de reforma al sistema que divide en dos etapas el periodo de jubilación, la ...
    • Mainul Hoque, Mohammad; King, Elizabeth; Montenegro, Claudio; Orazem, Peter F. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      Data from 919 household surveys conducted between 1960 and 2012 spanning 147 economies are used to evaluate the relationship between rising life expectancy at birth and lifetime years of schooling for successive birth ...