Durante la vigencia de la era del nitrato (salitre) principalmente en su etapa de mayor despliegue e influencia, la región de Antofagasta se convirtió en la mayor región exportadora del país y sostenedora principal de los ingresos fiscales, con una inserción completa en los mercados...

This paper analyse the network of social demonstrations of the recent "Chilean Student Winter" occurred between 2009 and 2012 by studying the co-participation patterns of social organizations using social network analysis. We describe main social actors and study the topological characteristics...

In this paper, we investigate the effect of the spatial density of firms on gender wage gap. We formalize this relationship using a monopsonistic approach in which women face higher travel costs due to domestic responsibilities. This creates not only bargaining power at the firm level but wage...

El objetivo principal del trabajo es describir los actores participantes y las características de la oferta espacial de “entretención para adultos” en la ciudad de Calama, y determinar qué tipo de negocio actúa como precursor de la formación de barrios rojos en dicha localidad. El...

This paper suggests that long distance commuters in Chile obtain a wage compen- sation of 8.7% on average when they commute among functional areas using data for 2009, while previous work identies an average compensation of 19% using counties. Also, we estimated a higher compensation per hour....

Existe abundante evidencia empirica relacionando la cooperacion con la innovacion tecnologica, pero con escaza atencion sobre las no-tecnologicas (Fagerberg, Mowery, & Nelson, 2006) (Rouvenen, 2002; Conte, 2009; Cemil & Brouwer, 2012; Franco; Marzucchi & Monttresor, 2014). Nosotros estudiamos el rol de las...

The large literature about economic convergence explores widely different ways of measure convergence as well as sophisticates and improves the econometrical techniques. Contradictory the number of contributions that analyze how relevant is the data spatial desegregation is reduced. Our...

This article examines the effect of market access and human capital on regional wage disparities in Ecuador using the wage equation of the core-periphery model of the New Economic Geography and a multi-level model. Our results, based on cross-sectional data, suggest that market access has a...

Este trabajo estima el diferencial de ingresos entre migrantes y locales en la ciudad de Bogotá, Colombia. Usando metodos de emparejamiento, los resultados indican que los inmigrantes obtienen, en promedio, el mismo ingreso que los nativos con similar edad, género, escolaridad y nivel...

The promotion of entrepreneurship has become one of the main policies of the Chilean development strategy in the last decade and has been considered as a means to improve local development. The government declared as a success the creation of 250,000 new firms in the last four years. This...