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Este artículo analiza el transcurso de la Gran depresión (1929 – 1932) en Chile. Su principal propósito es extraer lecciones de política en vistas a la recesión mundial que se encuentra actualmente en curso. Se analizan los prolegómenos, especialmente la crisis de pos guerra y la...
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Minimum wage (MW) policies are an old and controversial tradition in Latin America. Controversy develops principally on the different effects that in standard economic analysis are associated to MW policies such as creation of larger unemployment, higher
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In this paper we estimate the rate of return to investments in formal schooling for the Chilean case. The study covers six different years and the estimations have proceed through the methodology of cost-benefit analysis. In estimating the monetary benefi
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The main purpose of this paper is to measure the importance of labor market distortions in explaining the marked tendencies to revalue the real exchange rate and low effectiveness of devaluation in Latin America. To do so, an empirical model for analyzing
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The main objective of this paper was to measure the importance of labor market distortions in explaining the marked tendency to real exchange rate overvaluation and the relatively low effectiveness of devaluation in Latin America. The main finding is that distortions in the formal labor market...
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Este trabajo presenta el desarrollo de un modelo de dos sectores de acuerdo a la hipótesis de la existencia de inmovilidad sectorial del capital en corto plazo. Se investigan las implicancias que ello tiene con respecto al efecto de un proceso de apertura comercial. Se concluye en que la...
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Promoting non-traditional exports is a crucial policy target in most LDCs. Until now, policies addressing the likely negative effect of labor market distortions on exports have not relied upon direct empirical evidence on the impact of labor costs. Throug
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The role of minimum wages in the process of adjustment is important in connection with labor market rigidities and smoother labor reallocation across sectors. In the case of industrial countries, studies on the impact of the minimum wage on specific labor
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En este trabajo se analizan tres tipos de instituciones prevalecientes en los mercados laborales de muchos países, normas sobre salario mínimo, introducción de costos no salariales (prestaciones complementarias) y las políticas de salario y empleo del gobierno. Se sostiene que estos tres son...
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En este trabajo se presenta una breve síntesis del debate sobre la dinámica de ajuste del mercado laboral. Así se revisan los principales argumentos de los enfoques neoclásico tradicional y keynesiano, señalándose que este último marco proporciona una mejor aproximación al estudio de la...
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