Impacts of the urban dynamics on labor markets in major Chilean cities

Abstract

Economic and financial liberalization reforms, in most Latin American countries, have led to a radical change in the structure of material production in the region. In this context, this paper aims to identify and characterize the link between the growth trends of the main Chilean cities and the evolution of their urban labor markets, seeking to clarify whether the labor structure has been undergoing a process of urbanization or not. Specifically, the hypothesis is that, although the analyzed cities are different regarding their specialized regional economies, the structures of the labor markets tend to undergo a process of homogenization, increasingly marked by urban dynamics and involving a process of internal differentiation of the urban social structure.