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...

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...

This paper attempts to identify the existence of displacement in Mexico caused by drug-related violence. We identify two types of migrants: (i) migrants moving from nonviolent to violent states, driven by better economic opportunities and less expensive cost of living at destination; and (ii)...

We present evidence regarding the unequal spatial distribution of population in the north and south of Chile which implies that even when geographical distances to the main urban center are similar, the distances in a context of urban hierarchy are completely di?erent. Given this economic...

This paper presents a methodology to estimate the individual gender wage gap as the difference between wages of the women and their counterfactuals defined by Coarsened Exact Matching. If the women show a higher wage than comparable men, then it is called positive gap. Using eight surveys...

This paper estimates the gender wage gap for Chile between 1992-2009, but using by first time a matching comparison. In order to contribute to the empirical literature, this paper uses a novel technique called Coarsened Exact Matching which imposes the comparison among comparable workers. The...

This paper estimates the Urban Wage Premium for the Chilean case, but proposing three contributions to the literature. First, the geographical space is reconfigured using functional regions instead administrative regions. This process is carried out using techniques from the spatial econometric...

This paper presents an empirical framework for analyzing the spatial wage inequality in a Latin American country: Chile. This country is mainly characterized by two stylized facts: the high spatial concentration around metropolitan areas and the key role of natural resources. We consider both...

A true Cost of Living (COL) index measures the expenditure ratio of maintaining a utility level for two price vectors. Its application and empirical testing has been, generally, focalized on a temporal perspective. The aim of this paper is to calculate a spatial COL for the regions of Spain. For...