Documentos de trabajo: Recent submissions
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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, 2010)T.W. Schultz (1975) proposed that returns to human capital were highest in economic environments where technology, price or production shocks were common and managerial skills to adapt resource allocations to those shocks ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)La Defensoría Penal Pública chilena es el organismo encargado de proveer servicios de defensa penal en el contexto de la nueva justicia nacional (Reforma Procesal Penal). Para ello, o bien contrata abogados en forma ...
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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, 2010)We develop a two period general equilibrium model with incomplete financial markets and differential information. Making endogenous the traditional informational restriction on consumption, we allow agents to obtain ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)Consider a game with a continuum of players where only a finite number of them are atomic. Objective functions and admissible strategies may depend on the actions chosen by atomic players and on aggregate information ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)Este documento examina la complementariedad entre inversiones en I+D y TICs. Teóricamente, se modifica el modelo de Jones y Williams (1997). Empíricamente, se emplea un panel dinámico utilizando la metodología propuesta ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)La investigación en Chile acerca del efecto de las actividades no lectivas sobre el desarrollo de habilidades cognitivas y no cognitivas es muy escaso, a pesar de la creciente evidencia internacional de su relevancia, ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)El objetivo de este estudio es analizar si el mercado laboral reconoce monetariamente la habilidad de los docentes en Chile y si ésta afecta el desempeño académico de los estudiantes. Para ello, se estiman ecuaciones de ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)We characterize essential stability of Cournot-Nash equilibria of generalized games with a continuum of players. As application, we rationalize the active participation of politically engaged individuals as the unique ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)I exploit the unique institution of gender-segregated voting booths in Chile, allowing the use of actual voting data, instead of self-reported surveys, to test for gender bias among voters. I find evidence of a small but ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011)En este artículo construimos medidas de tipos de cambio real sectoriales para la economía chilena. Encontramos que hay significativa heterogeneidad en los TCR sectoriales, importantes cambios en esa heterogeneidad y en las ...
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(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 ...
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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, 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, 2012)Este artículo estudia el impacto del ingreso de la línea aérea GOL, ocurrida a fines de 2006, en las rutas que conectan que conectan Santiago de Chile con cuatro principales ciudades de Sudamérica. GOL es una aerolínea ...
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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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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)In this paper we assess the sensitivity of measures of inequality of opportunity to long-term earnings data. We compare indicators using four and seven year earnings with indicators that use the most commonly available ...
