The economic situation in emerging markets has deteriorated in recent years. Perhaps the single most important event especially for Latin America has been the end of the so called commodity supercycle which intensified with the collapse in oil prices in late 2014. But the trend of weaker currencies ...

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 ...

En este artículo clasificamos a Chile en términos de la flexibilidad de su mercado laboral entre economías con distintos grados de desarrollo, incluyendo países emergentes y pertenecientes a la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico. Para ello usamos un indicador deflexibilidad ...