In this article we question the notion that professional institutes cool out their students, disabling their admission to university. In order to do so we correct several methodological problems of previous studies that compares universities and professional institutes. Specifically, we compare...

This paper ranks Chilean universities for a sample of careers, using income data of graduates some years into their professions. The concept of ranking is constrained to categories, namely first-, secondand third-class universities, so defined with respect to the average of all universities. For...

El objetivo de este trabajo es aportar evidencia comparativa internacional para contribuir a dilucidar el tópico sobre la existencia de un déficit o superávit de profesionales (y técnicos) en Chile. Si bien el aspecto cuantitativo de la dotación de profesionales (y técnicos) es relevante,...

En este artículo se cuestiona el planteamiento de que los conocimientos y capacidades proporcionados por los institutos profesionales (IP) serían inferiores a los de universidades. Para esto se comparan los ingresos laborales de los egresados lo que resuelve varios problemas metodológicos...

This paper characterizes the dynamics of price adjustments in Chile using data at the establishment level of goods in the CPI basket. Our results show that nominal rigidities are lower when measured at micro-level compared to estimates based on macro data. The frequency of price adjustments...

We estimate a reduced form model for the daily dynamics of the nominal spot exchange rate in Chile. The model does reasonably well in explaining the long and short run dynamics for the peso-dollar exchange rate for the period 2001-2006. In addition, we extend the model to evaluate the effects of...