TY - JOUR
T1 - Copper mining in Chile and its regional employment linkages
AU - Fernandez, Viviana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - This article gauges employment interactions among different economic sectors of relevant copper-producing regions in Chile, such as Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama, Coquimbo, and O′Higgins. To that end, concordance measures of employment during peaks and troughs, and rolling correlations are computed. The estimation results show that the strength of employment co-movement of mining & quarrying with other economic sectors—within a given region and across regions —varies among the geographic locations under analysis. In particular, employment linkages between the Antofagasta and Metropolitan Regions have weakened over time. In addition, this article provides background information on the world copper market and Chile's mining sector. In particular, time series of copper production and labor productivity of private and state-owned mining firms operating in Chile are presented. Specifically, historical figures show that falling ore grades have had as a counterpart an increase in electricity costs per metric ton of refined copper during 2001–2015. This is specially the case for concentrator plants, which experienced an 87.1%-increase in electricity costs during that time period.
AB - This article gauges employment interactions among different economic sectors of relevant copper-producing regions in Chile, such as Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Atacama, Coquimbo, and O′Higgins. To that end, concordance measures of employment during peaks and troughs, and rolling correlations are computed. The estimation results show that the strength of employment co-movement of mining & quarrying with other economic sectors—within a given region and across regions —varies among the geographic locations under analysis. In particular, employment linkages between the Antofagasta and Metropolitan Regions have weakened over time. In addition, this article provides background information on the world copper market and Chile's mining sector. In particular, time series of copper production and labor productivity of private and state-owned mining firms operating in Chile are presented. Specifically, historical figures show that falling ore grades have had as a counterpart an increase in electricity costs per metric ton of refined copper during 2001–2015. This is specially the case for concentrator plants, which experienced an 87.1%-increase in electricity costs during that time period.
KW - Concordance
KW - Employment co-movement
KW - Labor productivity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045214089&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.03.017
DO - 10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.03.017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85045214089
SN - 0301-4207
VL - 70
JO - Resources Policy
JF - Resources Policy
M1 - 101173
ER -