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Underemployment and Queues for Full Time Jobs: Evidence from Chile

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  • Daniel Jaar
  • Alejandro Gonzalez
  • Esteban Puentes

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This article develops a double selection model in order to test whether part-time workers are excluded from full time jobs (underemployed) or choose to put themselves into distinct labour market segments. Results show statistical support for both exclusion and self-selection in the labour market. Additionally, they suggest that underemployment is mostly driven by the structural heterogeneity of the Chilean economy with human capital variables playing a secondary role. Wage equations are estimated as to further characterize each group; they show that the same economic segments that hire more full time workers pay wage premiums, a result consistent with the hypothesis of structural heterogeneity.

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  • Daniel Jaar & Alejandro Gonzalez & Esteban Puentes, 2016. "Underemployment and Queues for Full Time Jobs: Evidence from Chile," Working Papers wp432, University of Chile, Department of Economics.
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    1. Gabriel Rodríguez-Puello & Ariel Arcos & Benjamin Jara, 2022. "Would you Value a few More Hours of work? Underemployment and Subjective Well-Being Across Chilean Workers," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 17(2), pages 885-912, April.

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