Automation and the jobs of young workers | LAER 31
Lunes, 14 febrero 2022
New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study the effects of automation on labor market outcomes in a developing country, Chile. We focus our analysis on the heterogeneous impacts of automation across cohorts. Does automation affect young work-
- Published in Revistas CIDE
The rise and fall of income inequality in Chile
Lunes, 13 febrero 2017
This paper written by Francisco Parro and Loreto Reyes presents evidence on a rise and fall in income inequality in Chile during the past two decades. We show that income inequality rises from 1990 to 2000 and then falls from 2000 to 2011. We perform simple but informative decompositions to figure out the contributing factors
- Published in Revistas CIDE