Ideological Marketization and Policy Learning in Chile: The Case of Unemployment Insurance
The article addresses Chile's status as an innovator & international model of social policy reform in the 1970's & 1980's. Discussed are reasons why the establishment of an effective system of unemployment insurance remained beyond Chile's scope for many years, including the barriers created by infrastructure in Chile's labor market & financial economy, as well as the overall market neutrality that discouraged companies from hiring labor for long term employment. B. Boyce