Introduction: Model Performance or Precarious Employment?

Kirsten Sehnbruch

Chapter 1 in The Chilean Labor Market, 2006, pp 3-20 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Sonia lives in a low-income neighborhood of Santiago called Pedro Aguirre Cerda. She and her husband, Germán, have one daughter. They live in an area where most of the people I interviewed complained that at least one member of their family was unemployed. Sonia had lost her previous job with a cleaning subcontractor two months prior to our interview when they realized that she was pregnant. She shrugged her shoulders and said: “They would have thrown me out anyway. It’s not as though I can take the baby to work with me. Also, the shifts were too long. We sometimes did three or four jobs in a day … plus the travel time. You can’t do that with a baby.”1

Keywords: Labor Market; Unemployment Rate; Latin American Country; Pension System; Unemployment Insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403983640_1

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