Social policy and distributive indicators. Elements for a characterization of the chilean social policy model

Abstract

Chile experiments a period of readequacies on social issues. The civic demand for more equality and social security reflects in the public debate about distributive dimensions such as minimum wages. _As an attempt to give answers to these requirements, the democratic government has implemented reforms in the educational field, in labour and previsional areas. The present paper proposes to contribute to an institutional characterization of the Chilean social policy and an analysis of the distributive dynamics. For the achievement of this goal, specialized studies about the Welfare States are resorted, adapting these contributions to the configuration of the social policies in the national context. Further on, some social indicators linked to the treatment of inequality and poverty are introduced, comparing the distributive measures with the ones used in the countries of the OCDE.