[Alumnos-ii-cs] Coloquio Departamental, Martes 23 de Septiembre 12:00, F106 CC y LPA CSJ

[Claudio Torres L.]

Estimad at s,

Les envío un recordatorio amigable del coloquio que habrá mañana Martes 
23 de Septiembre a las 12:00 en la F-106 CC y LPA CSJ.

Cordiales Saludos,

Comité de Coloquios

On 12/09/14 16:06, Claudio Torres L. wrote:
> Estimad at s,
>
> Este *Martes 23 de Septiembre a las 12:00* tendremos nuestro coloquio 
> departamental en la F-106 (La charla se transmitirá en 
> videoconferencia al LPA, Campus Santiago, San Joaquín). En esta 
> ocasión *Dominik Hartmann, Ph.D.* nos presentará su trabajo titulado: 
> "Income Inequality and the Productive Structure of Countries".
>
> *Resumen:* New data availability and visualization methods allow to 
> create a more fine-grained picture of economic development and invites 
> students and scholars from different disciplines to join the debate on 
> structural change and inequality. The purpose of this project is to 
> establish some stylized empirical facts relating income inequality, at 
> the national and subnational level, to the industries present in a 
> location and the products exported by different locations. The study 
> takes 773 industrial sectors, 121 countries and 47 years into account, 
> illustrating that more complex industries, such as machinery and 
> electronics tend to be produced in countries with lower GINI 
> coefficients, whereas industries based on natural resources (such as 
> cocoa beans or copper) are produced in countries with high GINI 
> coefficients. The results illustrate that the productive structure of 
> countries conditions not just economic growth, but also the level of 
> income inequality.
>
> *Mini Bio:* Dr. Hartmann is a development economist. His research 
> explores the complex relations between structural economic change and 
> human development, revealing the co-evolutionary relations between 
> economic diversity, social networks and inequality. His last book 
> "Economic Complexity and Human Development" shows how Economic 
> Diversification and Social Networks affect human agency and welfare. 
> Currently Hartmann is a post-doctoral fellow in the Macro Connections 
> group at the MIT Media Lab (US) and a research fellow at the 
> University of Hohenheim (Germany). Please find more information in 
> http://www.hartmado.com/.
>
> ¡Quedan todos cordialmente invitados!
>
> Cordiales Saludos,
>
> Comité de Coloquios
>