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En este estudio se analiza la dinámica reciente de la inflación brasileña considerando distintas hipótesis de expectativas para observar la manera en que un posible comportamiento discrecional de la autoridad monetaria puede interferir en las expectativas con miras al futuro de los agentes y la f...

Logit, binary and multinomial models are used in this study to determine the impact of objective and perceived working conditions on workers’ job satisfaction. Possible differences between job satisfaction in the Metropolitan Region and in other areas of Chile are also explored. The data used in ...

We use panel data for Brazilian states from 1995 to 2009 to analyse the impact of economic growth and income inequality on poverty change in Brazil, seeking to evaluate the Bourguignon (2003) hypothesis that the more unequal a country is, the less effective economic growth will be at reducing pov...

This study uses some backward-looking versions of Phillips curves, estimated from both revised and real-time data, to explore the existence, robustness and size of the contribution that a variety of activity measures may make to the task of predicting inflation in Chile. The main results confirm ...

This article tests whether the profit share of gdp and capacity utilization affect capital accumulation in Brazil in the period 1950-2008 (in the sense of Granger causality). The methodology developed by Toda and Yamamoto (1995) is used to verify the Granger non-causality hypothesis. The results ...

This paper empirically explores the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in the countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). To reach that goal, the paper utilizes panel data consisting of annual data covering the period 1988-2013 from 34 c...

This study analyses the determinants of firm dynamics in developing countries, using Argentina as an illustrative case. It explains firm entry and exit at the regional level, distinguishing three groups of manufacturing activities: low-, medium- and high-tech. The study finds that both region- an...

This article analyses Brazil’s recent inflation dynamic, considering different expectations environments within the New-Keynesian Phillips curve framework, to observe how the potential for discretionary behaviour by the monetary authority can interfere in economic agents’ forward-looking expectat...

A pesar de la relevancia del tema, la literatura sobre las diferencias de salarios entre empleados de los sectores público y privado en América Latina es escasa. En este trabajo se analiza la brecha salarial entre estos sectores en Chile a partir de datos mensuales longitudinales de la Encuesta d...

En este estudio se presentan datos empíricos que permiten evaluar la repercusión de diversas variables socioeconómicas y políticas en distintas formas de medir la desigualdad de los ingresos en las 27 unidades de la República Federativa del Brasil entre 1999 y 2008. La experiencia brasileña resul...