Economic Implications of Long Distance Commuting in the Chilean Mining Industry

Patricio Aroca and Miguel Atienza ()
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Miguel Atienza: Department of Economics, Universidad Católica del Norte

No 3, Documentos de Trabajo en Economia y Ciencia Regional from Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile, Department of Economics

Abstract: More than 10 percent of the labor force that works in Antofagasta lives in other regions, commuting on average more than 800 kilometers in a shift system that allows working several days in a row followed by several days off. The mining industry is the main contractor of such workers and the impact of the process spreads through the rest of Chilean territory. Using an input-output approach, this paper shows that a significant amount of resources generated by the mining industries in the Region of Antofagasta goes to other regions in wages earned by commuters who have decided to work in this region but live in another. The commuting process seems to be driven by centripetal forces that support centralization, thus arguing for regional policies to promote the attractiveness of the peripheral regions.

Keywords: Long distance commuting; Spillover by labor commuting; labor commuting impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2010-10, Revised 2010-10
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Journal Article: Economic implications of long distance commuting in the Chilean mining industry (2011)
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