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 ...

The objective in building and specifying macroeconomic models is to reflect the main characteristics of an economy in a stylized way. This article describes a macroeconometric model for the Chilean economy. The aim of the model is to forecast the main macroeconomic variables, along with policy exercises ...