This article examines compensation and incentive schemes as they are contained in a major job contract between Codelco and its main labor union. Costs and productivity standards at the copper mining industry in Chile are the main background in the analysis. Main recommendation is pursuing...

Este trabajo analiza el mecanismo de fomento a las energías renovables no convencionales establecido en Chile en el año 2008, tanto desde una perspectiva conceptual como empírica, en la medida que se cuenta con los primeros resultados correspondientes al año 2010. La discusión se centra en...

This paper explores the dynamics of female employment decisions around childbearing using longitudinal data from the 2002-2006 Chilean Social Protection Survey (Encuesta de Protección Social, EPS). The study evaluates how the birth of a child can affect the woman’s decision to work. The...

We develop a theorical framework to assess fisheries management strategies from sustainability perspective, when the bioeconomic dynamics are marked by uncertainty. Using stochastic viability, management strategies are ranked according to their probability to satisfy economic and ecological...

This paper investigates the efficiency of investments by firms and workers in a matching model with high- and low-productivity jobs. Search is sector specific and random within sectors. Search frictions and ex-post bargaining imply that wage inequality arises as a result of the difference in...

This paper studies the interaction between the business cycle and the credit market. A first result is that the business cycle has procyclical effects on different types of credit (i.e., consumer, commercial and mortgage loans). The results area obtained through the identification of structural...

Este trabajo presenta una propuesta de medición multidimensional de la pobreza para Chile. Siguiendo el enfoque conceptual de Amartya Sen, pobreza no es meramente insuficiencia de ingresos, sino se define como privación de capacidades para la realización de funcionamientos valiosos en la...

El presente documento analiza la consistencia entre las fórmulas tarifarias incluidas en el reglamento de tarifas del sector sanitario chileno y la necesidad de incorporar el costo que representan los intereses intecalarios, en el marco de la realización de las inversiones por parte de la...

In January 2009 a new management regime of individual vessel quotas (IVQs) was put in force in the world´s largest fishery, the Peruvian anchovy fishery. Until 2009, the fishery was managed by a regulated open access system with clear symptoms of the race for fish. We argue that the new regime...