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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Durante los últimos años, la economía chilena ha experimentado un fenómeno inmigratorio muy significativo. Estimaciones recientes del Departamento de Extranjería y Migración (DEM) indican que entre enero del 2015 y diciembre del 2017 entraron al país cerca de 700 mil inmigrantes, con lo que la población ...

Cada año se discuten en Chile los aumentos que debieran aplicarse al salario mínimo (SM). Las principales motivaciones para aumentarlo radican en la alta y creciente desigualdad de ingresos en Chile y acerca de cuál debiera ser un ingreso ético para las familias. El salario mínimo fijado en Chile para ...

En Chile la actividad económica se ralentizó entre los años 2014 y 2017. A pesar de ello, el mercado laboral presentó cierta resiliencia, según se reflejó en una tasa de desempleo que se mantuvo baja en una perspectiva histórica. Paralelamente, la composición del empleo mostró cambios, con una mayor ...

En esta nota, estudiamos la importancia de las entradas y salidas desde y hacia los diferentes estados laborales en la dinámica del desempleo en Chile. Para ello, utilizamos la Encuesta Nacional de Empleo (ENE) elaborada por el Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE) para construir los flujos brutos ...

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 ...

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 ...