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I am an Associate Professor at the Institute for Economic Policies, Universidad Andres Bello (Santiago, Chile).

My current research interests are Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Political Economy.

Here you can find my C.V.

I am a principal researcher in the Nucleus LM2C2 (Labor Market Mismatch: Causes and Consequences) and an adjunct researcher of the MIPP (Millenium Institute on Market Imperfections and Public Policy)

I am also co-director of the SABE project (Sistema de Análisis de Bolsas de Empleo ), which gathers and harmonizes real-time data from job ads and applicants from multiple online job boards in Chile and classify demand and supply side into occupations using machine learning techniques.

These are profiles in: Google Scholar, RePeC, SSRN, Research Gate, ORCID, Scopus.

Contact: benjamin (at) benjaminvillena.com

Published on August 7th, 2023

NEWS:

Sept 12, 2023: Brief interview in ADN radio on recent employment reductions of big retailers and their implications for the labor market.

Sept 1, 2023: I presented our paper "What s/he wants in a job" at the Annual Meeting of the Chilean Economic Society (SECHI).

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July 28, 2023: Brief interview in La Segunda on the current unemployment rate and its evolution for the next months.

July 19, 2023: Our joint project with Steven Davis (Chicago) and Sekyu Choi (Bristol) received a Becker Fredman Institute LATAM grant.

July 17, 2023: The Chilean Ministry of Finance appointed me as one of the members of the commitee of experts to determine the trend GDP for the structural balance fiscal budget. You can find the official news here.

June 30, 2023: I presented our paper "Labor Markets, Wage Inequality, and Hiring Selection" at the 2023 Society for Economics Dynamics Meeting.in Cartagena, Colombia.

May 10, 2023: I participated in a round table to talk about the new regulation of hours worked in Chile organized by MIPP and LM2C2. You can find extract here or to watch the whole activity in Youtube.

May 8, 2023: A new version of our paper "Deconstructing Job Search" is now available.

May 4, 2023: I was also interviewed in Radio Inicia to mainly talk about the recient increase of the unemployment rate in Chile.

May 4, 2023: I was interviewed in Radio Agricultura on the current situation of the Chilean labor market, addressing the increasing unemployment rate and the recently approved reduction of legal hours worked.

May 3, 2023: I wrote a column explaining our paper Opening the Black Box of Social Capital Formation, published in American Political Science Review in 2014, for one of my favorite blogs in Economics Nada es Gratis.

May 1, 2023: My column on the just approved reduction and flexibilization of regular hours worked in Chile was published in El Mostrador. Just in time for the Labor Day!

Apr 26, 2023: The official website of the Nucleus LM2C2 Labor Market Mismatch: Causes and Consequences is up. I am delighted to be one of the principal researchers of this joint grant funded by ANID.

Apr 18, 2023: I presented the paper "Measuring occupation demand from job ads" at the Economics seminar of Universidad de Santiago (USACH, FAE)

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