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...

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

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