Importance of Long Distance Commuting (LDC) has increased as result of the continuos reduction of transport costs. This paper formalizes the relationship between LDC and wage through a job search model where a commuting time variable is included. The paper proposes that LDC should be compensated...

Este artículo propone caracterizar la situación de familias inmigrantes afrocolombianas, con énfasis en mujeres viviendo en la región Antofagasta, Chile. Desde una metodología mixta, se utilizaron entrevistas, grupos de conversación y encuestas con grupos de hombres y mujeres nacidos en...

The aim of this article is to build a spatial housing price index for the Chilean communes (the commune political body similar to a municipality or county). The first step is to recover hedonic prices of three housing attributes by estimating a mixed index model (Bowden, 1992) using a...

El trabajo describe las características del tejido institucional local entendido como el patrón de conectividad inter-institucional, para la Región de Atacama, Chile. Se discuten tipos estrategias de desarrollo local compatibles con el patrón de conectividad observado, caracterizadas como...

La literatura sobre el sistema chileno de Educación Superior presenta una evidente carencia de trabajos sociológicos, especialmente de aquellos que se enmarcan en las teorías de la reproducción social. En este sentido, nuestro artículo trata de ser un aporte al desarrollo de esta línea de...

This paper suggests that long distance commuters obtain a wage compensation of 10% on average. With respect to the length of the trip, wages increase 5.7% per commuted hour. Regions with the highest influx of commuters are simultaneously those with higher wage compensations. This research...

We use the sociological paradigm of Social Reproduction, proposed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu, to explain the wage gap in Chile, in opposition to the Neoclassical economic paradigm, currently hegemonic in the analysis of wage differentials. We expose and compare both theoretical paradigms...

This paper describes a methodology to calculate a spatial cost of living index using Colombian data for 2006 that takes into consideration the microeconomic behavior of households. Using the Almost Ideal Demand System and recovering the expenditure functions for the 23 main Colombian cities, the...

The objective of this paper is to discuss the role that values play into designing and implementing public policies, for this, we studied the case of social protection policy designed in Chile in its implementation in a regional (state) level using a the Region of Antofagasta, Chile, as case of...

We estimate the spatial substitution bias based on the difference between a price index and the true cost of living. We estimate the substitution bias for several different geographical scales, using different base baskets and across several spending quartiles. Our results show a significant...