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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2009)In this article we apply some recently developed methodologies (Paes de Barros et al, 2008) to measure the evolution of the inequality of opportunity in Chile in the 1990-2006 period. The opportunities are measured as ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)The digital era is reshaping labor markets. Until now, this has been a developed country type of development. Developing countries, and in particular, Latin American economies are behind in terms of the adoption of ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)Taking advantage of georeferenced data from Chilean students, we estimate the impact of commuting time over academic achievement. As the commuting time is an endogenous variable, we use instrumental variables and fixed ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)The incidence of alternative work arrangements has risen during recent decades, affecting the shape of the economy and leading to calls for changes in labor regulation. In this paper, we study the demand for temporary ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)The acquistion of technology through licenses is a potentially important means of accelerating productivity growth, especially in "late starter" developing countries in the throes of "catch up". Yet the literature has ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)We estimate the effect of prison labor programs on recidivism using a nationwide census-based dataset of all prison inmates released in 2010 in Chile and tracked for two years after release. Because participation in ...
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(Inter-American Development Bank, 2011-10)This paper seeks to measure the impact on small businesses in Chile of the Seed Capital Program implemented by Chile’s Technical Cooperation Services (Servicio de Cooperación Técnica – SERCOTEC). The results are mixed. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)This brief paper proposes an analytical method for estimating the economic value of forest ecosystems in supplying climate regulation. If, as argued by several authors, forests ecosystems serve as hedging against climatic ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)In February of 2010 a Law on Equal Opportunities and Social Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, the Law N. 20.422, was enacted in Chile. One of the aims of this reform was to improve the labour inclusion for the ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)We estimate the “place premium”—the wage gain that accrues to foreign workers who arrive to work in the United States. First, we estimate the predicted, purchasing-power adjusted wages of people inside and outside the ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)This paper investigates the labor market returns to high school types. We exploit comprehensive administrative data describing the school-to-work transition for the universe of Chilean students attending tenth grade in ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)This paper explores the role of social networks in determining labor market participation and salaried employment of Bolivian women and men. We define social networks as the share of neighbors that have jobs, and find ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)In this paper we prove a general version of the Second Welfare Theorem for a non-convex and non-transitive economy, with public goods and other externalities in consumption. For this purpose we use the sub-gradient to the ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)We introduce the concept of weak tax neutrality which establishes that the relationship between the tax rate and the user cost of capital may be non-monotonic. We show that most existing corporate tax systems allow for ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)n Santiago, the capitol of Chile, an ambitious reform of the public transport industry, aptly named Transantiago, was introduced in February 2007. Serious design and implementation problems were immediately evident, ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)We examine the effects of free-of-charge availability of emergency contraception on contraceptive behaviour in Chile. Using a survey of individuals 15 to 29, we exploit variation in availability at the municipality level ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)We examine the effects of free-of-charge availability of emergency contraception on contraceptive behaviour in Chile. Using a survey of individuals 15 to 29, we exploit variation in availability at the municipality level ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-10)Using retained profits, instead of realized capital gains, by simply adding them to the shareholders’ other sources of income is shown to be in general incorrect. We provide a methodology to include undistributed profits ...
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Tournaments, gift exchanges, and the effect of monetary incentives for teachers: the case of Chile (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2009)In this paper we evaluate the introduction in Chile of monetary incentives for teachers, based on a school performance tournament. We evaluate the tournament effect, i.e. the effect of introducing the incentive scheme ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2009)Usando datos del módulo de historia laboral de la Encuesta de Protección Social para los años 2002, 2004 y 2006, se construyó un panel mensual para el período 2000-2006. Para modelar las variables que intervienen en la ...