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    • 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 ...
    • Benavente Hormazábal, José; Contreras B., José Luis (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2006)
      En este trabajo se estima en forma conjunta el markup y la distribución de la renta a cada uno de los factores productivos en la industria manufacturera chilena durante los noventa. Mediante el uso de Método de Momentos ...
    • Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Ruiz-Tagle Venero, Jaime; Sepúlveda, Paulina (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)
      Los últimos procesos migratorios que ha vivido Chile han despertado el interés respecto a los efectos de la inmigración sobre la economía del país. El objetivo de este trabajo es caracterizar y analizar los efectos de ...
    • Berger, David; Caballero, Ricardo; Engel Goetz, Eduardo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-11)
      When microeconomic adjustment is lumpy, the VAR-estimated persistence of the corresponding aggregated variable is downward biased. The extent of this bias decreases with the level of aggregation, yet convergence is very ...
    • Paredes Haz, Valentina (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)
      In this paper we study the effect on the math gender gap from attending a singlesex classroom in a coeducational school versus a coeducational classroom in a coeducational school. In contrast to the previous literature ...
    • Green, Jerry; Hojman Trujillo, Daniel (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-03)
      We consider a decision maker that holds multiple preferences simultaneously, each with different strengths described by a probability distribution. Faced with a subset of available alternatives, the preferences held by ...