-receiving states and metropolitan areas. Then I quantify the consequences of these wage effects on the poverty rates of native families … "poor" families among U.S.-born individuals. I consider the decade 2000-2009 during which poverty rates increased … no effect of immigration on native poverty at the national level. At the local level, only considering the most extreme …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European …

unemployment. Results from simulation exercises suggest that in the case of Chile the reforms resulted in an increase in informal … the reduction of Chile's aggregate of unemployment …

using firm-level data in Chile, a non-OECD member under the considered time period, and France. We rely on two extensions of … period 1996-2003 in Chile containing unique data on firm-level output price indices and 14,270 firms over the period 1994 …

statement, we compare the polar cases of Chile and Argentina. While Chile exhibited a significant economic slowdown after August …. We attribute their difference to the fact that Chile is more open to trade than Argentina, and that it appears to suffer …

Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Greece. The results suggest that the haircut imposed by Argentina in its 2005 restructuring (75 …