Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • SUMMARY
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Figure 1 Trends in economic growth and per capita income, 1960-97
  • PART I TRENDS IN GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS
  • A. THE DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF GLOBALIZATION
  • Figure 2 Trade and investment flows, 1975â€?97
  • B. AN OVERVIEW OF SOCIAL PROGRESS INDICATORS
  • Improvements in aggregate employment and wages, and a drop in poverty levels
  • Figure 3 Labour market trends, 1980â€?97
  • Figure 4 Average real wages, 1980â€?97 (1980=100)
  • Figure 5 Poverty rates, 1987â€?96 (as a percentage of total population)Figure 6 Public health indicators, 1970â€?95
  • Income inequality
  • Figure 7 Income distribution by quintiles of households, 1987â€?96
  • Figure 8 Income distribution indicators, 1957â€?96
  • Figure 9 Ratio of hourly wages for salaried male university graduates to hourly wages for salaried male high-school graduates, 1959â€?96
  • Figure 10 Indicators of the wage share in national income
  • Table 1 Average monthly earnings by sex and education, 1996
  • Unequal opportunity
  • Figure 11 Probability of completing secondary and tertiary education by level of education of the father, 1992Table 2 Socio-economic indicators by income quintile
  • Employment quality
  • Figure 12 Indicators of labour turnover, 1965â€?94
  • Table 3 Employment quality indicators by employment category, 1996
  • Figure 13 Composition of employment by category for different levels of education, 1996
  • Table 4 Index of average earnings by employment category and education, 1996
  • Notes
  • PART I I ASSESSING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION
  • A. PATTERNS OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGETrade patterns
  • Figure 14 Export structure by main sectors, 1974, 1985, 1997
  • Table 5 Main export products, 1980, 1990, 1996
  • Table 6 Composition of Chilean exports by geographic destination, 1995
  • Comparisons between export-oriented and import-competing sectors
  • Table 7 Indicators of revealed comparative advantage, 1985, 1994
  • Figure 15 Average earnings by economic sector, 1996
  • Table 8 Employment by category and type of economic sector, 1996
  • Table 9 Composition of employment by educational attainment and economic sector 1, 1996Table 10 Average monthly earnings by education and economic sector, 1996
  • B. TRADE, AGGREGATE INCOME AND SUSTAINABILITY
  • Table 11 Evolution of world markets for Chileâ€?s main export products, 1980â€?96
  • Table 12 Price variability of main manufacturing export sectors, 1963â€?95
  • Table 13 Terms of trade by country, 1970â€?96
  • C. TRADE AND INCOME INEQUALITIES
  • A brief review of the literature
  • A theoretical analysis
  • Box 1 A factor-specific model of international trade