Various regions have recently proposed the creation of clusters around large-scale mining. However, until the 1986s, mining regions were predominantly considerer productive enclaves. This article analyzes the case of the Antofagasta Region, the main mining region in Chile. A descriptive analysis...

En este trabajo identificamos algunos factores que inciden en el tiempo de trabajo de los trabajadores chilenos en 2003. Se concluye que la precariedad laboral incide de modo significativo en las horas trabajadas sin embargo la relación cambia a partir de cierto nivel cuando las personas no...

El concepto de enclave económico se usa para explicar el bajo impacto de las inversiones extranjeros sobre su entorno. Llama la atención que la literatura económica no haya desarrollado este concepto como la sociología y la ciencia política. En particular, analizamos lo que sucede en un...

<title>Abstract</title> Informal investment represents one of the main sources to finance early-stage new ventures. Despite the progressive participation of women in informal investment, little is known about the characteristics of female informal investors, especially in developing countries. This study...

Funding is critical during new firms´ creation and the most sources of funding in the early stages of entrepreneurial ventures are informal investors (Family, Friends, the Founding entrepreneurs themselves, and the foolhardy strangers, also known as business angels). Entrepreneurs in the...

This article examines the effect of market access and human capital on regional wage disparities in Ecuador using the wage equation of the core-periphery model of the New Economic Geography and a multi-level model. Our results, based on cross-sectional data, suggest that market access has a...

The promotion of entrepreneurship has become one of the main policies of the Chilean development strategy in the last decade and has been considered as a means to improve local development. The government declared as a success the creation of 250,000 new firms in the last four years. This...

Este trabajo contrasta la hipótesis de que, en la ciudad de Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), las empresas continúan concentradas de forma monocéntrica. Para ello se estima un modelo estadístico que compara densidades locales para contrastar la hipótesis monocéntrica. Los índices de...