5 articles in this issue
Carmen Pagés
This paper develops and tests a mechanism by which job security affects theage-composition of employment. This mechanism is based on the relative costsof dismissing young versus older workers resulting from job security provisionsthat are related to tenur... see more
Jaime Ruiz-Tagle
Wage inequality in Chile has remained high for decades and it is currently at thecenter of the political agenda. Increasing education of workers is expected tocontribute to reduce wage inequality. Based on historical trends of age, education,and returns t... see more
Víctor Lima
Through flows from 3 states, employment, unemployment and out of the laborforce, we analyze the dynamics of labor markets in Chile from 1962-2007. Weidentify some periods of different labor market regimes and relate them withchanges in flexibility. We fou... see more
Javier Nuñez
We apply a variation of Bourguignon, Meléndez and Ferreira (2005) methodologyto examine the extent to which income inequality is associated with the inequalityof observed exogenous circumstances of origin that determine individuals’“opportunities” to purs... see more
Esteban Puentes
This paper studies long-term trends of self-employment in Chile. Self-employmentis associated with poor job conditions, vulnerability, and instability or informallabor market. Contrary to what is expected, self- employment level does notrespond to macroec... see more