4 articles in this issue
Jeanette Fuentes, Rodrigo Montero, Amalia Palma
Using data from the CASEN survey, this paper analyzes the evolution of gender wage discrimination in Chile over the period 1990-2003. The methods of Oaxaca- Blinder and Oaxaca and Ransom were implemented to investigate whether there is wage discrimination... see more
César Salazar, Mauricio Villena
This research has been divided into two main parts. First we use elements of Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) to examine the evolutionary stability of different types of preferences in the context of common property resource exploitation. Particularly, we a... see more
Dante Contreras, Emerson Melo, Susana Ojeda
In this paper we investigate the bias due to non observable factors in the estimating of return to schooling for the case of Chile. Using the data from the Casen Survey panel 1996-2001, we estimate a difference model. We find a return to schooling around ... see more
Javier Nuñez, Horacio Villegas
This paper studies the magnitude and variation of ethnic discrimination accross different schooling and geographical niches of the Bolivian labor market. We find that ethnic wage differentials in the Altiplano region are associated with productivity diffe... see more