Browsing by Title Documentos de trabajo
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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 ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2008)Este artículo analiza la evolución del trabajo a tiempo parcial en Chile y los factores económicos, tanto de oferta como demanda, que lo afectan. Se incorpora un análisis a la regulación y se proponen algunas medidas para ...
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(Centre For New Development Thinking, 2012)This article examines why, after 20 years of government by a centre-left coalition, the political position of unions in Chile has probably weakened. The academic literature has predominantly focused on the political and ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)This article develops a double selection model in order to test whether part-time workers are excluded from full time jobs (underemployed) or choose to put themselves into distinct labour market segments. Results show ...
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(National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999)Americans who are caught evading taxes in one year may be audited for prior years. While the IRS does not disclose its method of selecting tax returns to audit, it is widely believed that a taxpayer's probability of being ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-12)In recent years, unemployment protection systems based on individual savings have been instituted in several developing countries. Chile was one of the first countries to establish such a system, which at the time was ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011)This paper presents a summary of Önancial access in rural Thailand. We Önd that household use an important variety of Önancial instruments and at the same time, there is a lot of heterogeneity at the province level. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016-01)Despite the relevance of protected areas as biodiversity conservation tools, indicators of cost-benefit analysis of both public and private protected areas has been scarce in the literature. In this paper, we estimate and ...
