Is industrial related variety an enabling condition for regional entrepreneurship? A comparison between mining and non-mining regions in Chile

The impact of long‐distance commuting on salaries and employment in host regions in Chile

“…LDC might serve as a mechanism to reducing labor costs in companies (by hiring workers willing to accept a job offer with a lower salary compared to workers residing in those areas), since these workers could choose to live in places where their real salary is higher allowing them to offset the costs of commuting. 17 We have conducted a similar analysis using the employment in mining activity as a new variable to identify mining regions to validate these results, following Hernandez et al (2022). In this regard, we use the proportion of employment in mining industry in region i and educational level j relative to the total employment in each respective group ij.…”

Youth unemployment during economic shocks: Evidence from the metal-mining prices super cycle in Chile

“…These new estimates are available to the reader, upon request to the authors. 14 We should acknowledge that a significant percentage of the workers in the mining industry live outside the local labor market (Hernández et al, 2022). This long-distance commuting could therefore distort the labor market analysis, especially in mining regions.…”