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Labor market distortions, employment and grwth: the recent chilean experience
From 1984 to 1998, the Chilean economy grew at a rate of 5.4 percent per capita, putting it among the world’s most successful economies in the past twenty years. This performance can undoubtedly be attributed to the market-oriented structural reforms that took place in the 1970s, 1980s, and early ...
Assessing the flexibility of the labor market in Chile: An international perspective
The unemployment rate in Chile averaged slightly over 6.5 percent throughout a ten-year period of high economic growth that ended in 1997. Unemployment then rose significantly at the outset of the Asian crisis, reaching levels near 11 percent. This broadly coincided with the implementation of a set ...
General equilibrium dynamics of external shocks and policy changes in Chile
This paper explores Chile’s macroeconomic dynamics with the help of a general equilibrium model parameterized for the Chilean economy. The model is based on microanalytic foundations, and its basic relations are derived from intertemporal optimization by a group of forward-looking agents endowed with ...
Designing labor market institutions
There is fairly wide agreement among economists on what constitutes optimal—or at least good—product market and financial market institutions. There is much less agreement on what constitutes optimal—or at least good—labor market institutions. As a result, the public debate is too often dominated by ...
Microeconomic flexibility in Latin America
Latin American economies have begun to leave behind some of the most primitive sources of macroeconomic fluctuations. Policy concern is gradually shifting toward increasing microeconomic flexibility. This is a welcome trend since microeconomic flexibility, which facilitates the ongoing process of ...
Dynamics of earnings in Chile
Uncertainty is a key dimension of individual decisionmaking. Individuals cannot insure against certain contingencies under incomplete markets. Uncertainty thus influences the life-cycle evolution of consumption and savings, labor supply and asset allocation, and education and occupation choices. ...
Una mirada al desarrollo económico de Chile desde una perspectiva internacional
Este trabajo estudia la posición relativa de Chile en el tiempo y respecto de otras economías —emergentes o industrializadas— en distintos indicadores de desarrollo económico, particularmente en las últimas dos décadas. Se presenta un análisis descriptivo, sin explorar relaciones causales ni probar ...
El miedo a flotar y la política cambiaria en Chile
Este artículo revisa las políticas de manejo cambiario en Chile, poniendo particular énfasis en el régimen de tipo de cambio flotante implementado en 1999 y los dos episodios de intervención cambiaria posteriores a este. Se presenta evidencia de las favorables condiciones existentes en Chile para ...
Respuestas de política a shocks externos en Australia, Brasil y Chile
Las economías abiertas, especialmente las emergentes y las exportadoras de productos primarios, tienen que hacer frente a grandes shocks externos. Las reacciones de política y el marco de política económica pueden potencialmente amplificar o atenuar las consecuencias de estos shocks. En este trabajo ...