This paper aims to identify whether or not the spatial concentration of poverty –also called economic residential segregation- affects the opportunities of the poor in Chile. Residential segregation is understood as the concentration particular population groups in determined geographical...

The purpose of the study is to analyze the trends in the labor market participation of women between 1958 and 2003. Two main sources of primary data are used: the Employment Survey of the University of Chile, which covers the city of Santiago in the 1958-2003 period, and the CASEN socioeconomic...

There has been a surge of interest recently on the relation between poverty and transport policies. When analyzing the relation between poverty and transport, often the “affordability” of public transport is estimated. In this paper we present two alternative definitions of affordability...

Chile no ha tenido un set único de reformas, o “modelo único”, desde el golpe militar de 1973, sino a lo menos tres, con distintos énfasis y dosificaciones, y con resultados divergentes. Segundo, Chile ha experimentado fuertes crisis e inestabilidad económica en parte de estos tres...

Este trabajo examina la importancia de la ascendencia como elemento de diferenciación social en Chile. Con este propósito, se investiga, primero, el grado de asociación entre la ascendencia y el estrato socioeconómico de los individuos existente en la actualidad, y segundo, la percepción...

In many developing countries, remittance receipts from overseas are importantsupplements to household income. How do these remittance flows affect poverty andinequality in migrants’ home areas? To answer this question, we take advantage ofexogenous shocks to the remittance receipts of...

Mediante la estimación de un modelo de probabilidad paramétrico y uno semi-paramétrico de Klein y Spady (1993) este trabajo investiga los determinantes socioeconómicos de la probabilidad de disolución matrimonial en Chile. La separación es una decisión de individuos racionales que se...

El presente trabajo contribuye a explicar los determinantes de la distribución salarial en América Latina durante la década de los noventa. El estudio utiliza el modelo básico de descomposición de la varianza de los salarios propuesto por Fields (2002), basado en la estimación de una...

Most public transport subsidies in developing countries are justified on equity or social grounds. However, it is not clear how well current subsidies meet these objectives. In this paper we evaluate several public transport subsidies in the case of Santiago, Chile. This is an interesting case...

The objective of this paper is to study the Chilean labor market and determine the presence or absence of gender discrimination. In order to break past the limitations of earlier works, an experimental design is used, the first of its kind in Chile. This study also allows socioeconomic...