The importance of the labor market is indisputable. The countries' economic outcomes rely to a significant extent on its performance, as production, economic growth, and prices are all intimately linked with it. Moreover, the functioning of the labor market is a key determinant of social welfare. ...

Estudios recientes han documentado la importancia de la brecha laboral para explicar la magnitud de las fluctuaciones cíclicas de la economía Chilena. Ninguno de estos estudios, sin embargo, ha profundizado en las fluctuaciones de la brecha laboral y sus posibles fuentes. En este artículo damos un ...

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 ...

One of the defining features of the financial crisis of 2008?09 has been its persistent impact on the U.S. labor market with the unemployment rate roughly doubling from early 2008 through mid2010. This has ignited an intense debate on the appropriate stimulus response of fiscal policy. The debate has ...

Este trabajo analiza empíricamente los ingresos laborales utilizando datos de la Encuesta Suplementaria de Ingresos. Los resultados indican que el componente predecible del ingreso tiene forma de U invertida en el ciclo de vida, y que el nivel de educación tiene efectos importantes. El componente ...

Future generations will likely remember the turn of the 21st century as the time when mainstream macroeconomics was about to completely remove money and finance from its models and perished in the attempt. Before the subprime crisis macroeconomic/monetary theory reached a level of pristine perfection ...

La evolución reciente de la productividad ha sido un rompecabezas para los economistas. Después de un periodo marcado por un crecimiento histórico (1987-1997), la productividad agregada se estancó (1998- 2012). El análisis de este trabajo se circunscribe a estudiar la productividad en nueve grandes ...

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 ...

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 ...

En este trabajo exploramos algunos de los canales a través de los cuales los términos de intercambio afectan las variables del mercado laboral en una economía emergente como la Chilena. Para ello analizamos las propiedades cíclicas de las variables laborales y usamos un vector autorregresivo para ...