OECD Reviews of Labour Market and Social Policies: Chile 2009

• Publication date: April 2009

This report analyses in detail the implications of recent developments in Chile's labour market and social policy and considers the available policy options from the perspective of OECD countries’ experience....

This report analyses in detail the implications of recent developments in Chile's labour market and social policy and considers the available policy options from the perspective of OECD countries’ experience.

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Chapter 1. Key Trends: Strong Economic Growth but Insufficient Job Creation
-1. A favourable macroeconomic environment
-2. Chile has large human resources that are not well utilised
-3. Job creation n low-productivity sectors
-4. The quality of jobs, subcontracting and worker dispatching, and informal employment
-5. Significant improvements in health, education, and housing
-6. Poverty has been much reduced, but the income distribution remains very unequal
-7. Income inequality in Chile is closely linked with wage inequality
-8. Regional diversity
-9. Conclusions
Chapter 2. Towards More Equal Job Opportunities
-1. Introduction
-2. Important issues of labour legislation have yet to be resolved including employment protection legislation, subcontracting and temporary work agencies, and working time
-3. Industrial relations and collective bargaining
-4. Labour taxation and informal employment
-5. The Labour Inspectorate and labour courts
-6. An atypical unemployment insurance programme
-7. The public employment service
-8. Job related training and lifelong learning
-9. Special issues concerning the employment of women
-10. Conclusions
Chapter 3. Reducing Poverty in the Working-Age Population
-1. Introduction
-2. Social policy: overall spending and redistributive effect; education, heatlh and housing policies; an integrated approach to supporting the poor
-3. Conclusions
Chapter 4. The Normalisation of Chile's Pension System
-1. Introduction
-2. The Chilean Pension System
--Poverty among elderly and redistribution of pension spending
--The basic solidarity fund
--The mandatory private pension system
--Disability and Survivor coverage
-4. Conclusions
Annex 4.A1. Background data to Chile's Private Pension System
Annex 4.A2. The Chilean Pension Market: Competition, Individual Choice and Financial Risk Management
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