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Desempeño y brecha educativa en Chile: ¿existe un sesgo por cobertura?
La mayor cobertura educacional en conjunto con el estancamiento del rendimiento educacional en Chile, en un contexto de mayor gasto en educación, es un verdadero puzle. Una hipótesis natural es que el aumento de la cobertura, al incorporar progresivamente a los grupos más vulnerables, explica la ...
Trade orientation and labor market evolution: Evidence from chilean plant-level data
Many developing and developed economies consider structural reforms to trade and fiscal policy that are designed to lower taxes and tariffs and stimulate investment and production of the manufacturing sector. A good example of such a country is Chile, which went through a series of structural reforms ...
The supply-side origins of U.S. inflation
In recent years, we have not seen much of a negative correlation
between inflation, the time series plotted in figure 1, and measures of
resource slack, based on real GDP plotted in figure 2. This flattening
of the Phillips curve in many countries across the world has startled
monetary policymakers. ...
Jobless recoveries during financial crises: is inflation the way out?
The slow rate of employment growth relative to that of output is a sticking point in the recovery from the financial crisis episode that started in 2008 in the U.S. and Europe (a phenomenon labeled 'jobless recovery'). The issue is a particularly burning one in Europe where some observers claim that ...
Government spending and the real exchange rate: a cross-country perspective
There is no consensus about the economic implications of real exchange rate (RER) misalignments. Some authors argue that keeping the real exchange rate away from its equilibrium level creates distortions in the relative prices of tradable and nontradable goods generating misleading signals to economic ...
Cambios estructurales en la demanda por trabajo en Chile
La capacidad de generar empleo en la economía Chilena ha sido sorpresivamente lenta durante 2000 y 2001. A pesar de que el crecimiento del producto ha sido positivo desde agosto de 1999 la tasa de desempleo no ha disminuido como se esperaba. Una hipótesis que se ha levantado para explicar este fenómeno ...
Adapting macroprudential policies to global liquidity conditions
The global financial crisis that erupted in 2007 has had intellectual repercussions as well as large economic costs. Recent events in the advanced economies especially the capital flow reversals and the looming banking sector crises in Europe have shaken the conviction that traditional yardsticks of ...
Complementariedad entre un impuesto de tasa plana y subsidios monetarios para mejorar la distribución del ingreso en Chile
Este estudio analiza políticas redistributivas de Chile asociadas al establecimiento de un impuesto a la renta del tipo flat tax, y la ampliación del 'ingreso ético familiar', utilizando un modelo de equilibrio general computable dinámico combinado con microsimulaciones. Los resultados muestran que, ...
On current account surpluses and the correction of global imbalances
The United States has run an increasingly large current account deficit over the last few years. J. P. Morgan forecasts that in 2007 the deficit will reach almost one trillion dollars, or 7 percent of GDP. This unprecedented situation has generated concern among analysts and policymakers. Many argue ...
Household saving and labor informality: the case of Chile
El artículo compara el comportamiento de ahorro de los trabajadores formales e informales. Además, ofrece una caracterización socioeconómica y financiera de los trabajadores informales. Utilizamos la Encuesta Financiera de Hogares levantada por el Banco Central de Chile en el 2007 y tenemos entre 2.533 ...