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Privatizing Retirement: The Case Of The Female Chilean Worker, Teresa A. Renier
Privatizing Retirement: The Case Of The Female Chilean Worker, Teresa A. Renier
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Chile has been called the “promised land” of Latin America, a First World country, and an economic miracle. Privatizing social security in Chile has often been hailed by economists as the key for their unprecedented economic growth and success within the past few decades—so much so that other countries have adopted similar pension models within their own countries. Somewhere along this path of astonishing economic growth, Chile, like other developed nations, has arrived at a point where it can no longer assume that the typical worker is a man. Yet as the gap continues to decrease between female and male …