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Labor market distortions, employment and grwth: the recent chilean experience
From 1984 to 1998, the Chilean economy grew at a rate of 5.4 percent per capita, putting it among the world’s most successful economies in the past twenty years. This performance can undoubtedly be attributed to the market-oriented structural reforms that took place in the 1970s, 1980s, and early ...
General equilibrium analysis of a fuel tax increase in Chile
Achieving economic growth has been an important issue for over half a century. More recently, developed countries have incorporated the need for a more equitable and environmentally balanced growth. The complexity of modeling an economy with all its interrelations, agents, and sectors, however, has ...
Innovación tecnológica en Chile: dónde estamos y qué se puede hacer
El objetivo principal de este trabajo es caracterizar y evaluar la situación de Chile en aspectos científico-tecnológicos desde un prisma económico. Del análisis realizado se desprende que, considerando el nivel de desarrollo que presenta nuestro país, existen graves deficiencias en nuestro Sistema ...
Assessing the flexibility of the labor market in Chile: An international perspective
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 ...
On the determinants of chilean economic growth
If looked at since the mid-1980s, Chile’s economic performance has been fairly impressive compared not only with the rest of Latin America, but also with most of the countries in the world. From a long-run perspective, however, Chile did not display such an outstanding performance in the 1960s and ...
Diagnóstico y propuestas para la educación chilena
La educación juega un rol preponderante en el crecimiento económico. Las reformas estructurales emprendidas en Chile en este frente aportaron un poco más de un punto porcentual de mayor crecimiento durante los noventa. Si continuamos en la actual senda de desarrollo del capital humano o mejor aun ...
Una mirada al desarrollo económico de Chile desde una perspectiva internacional
Este trabajo estudia la posición relativa de Chile en el tiempo y respecto de otras economías —emergentes o industrializadas— en distintos indicadores de desarrollo económico, particularmente en las últimas dos décadas. Se presenta un análisis descriptivo, sin explorar relaciones causales ni probar ...
A toolkit for analyzing alternative policies in the chilean economy
As noted by Leeper (1995) “the business pages of leading newspapers give the impression that the effects of alternative monetary policies on the macroeconomy are well understood and predictable.” They tend “to write with great certainty that when the monetary authority raises interest rates it slows ...