The Center for Economics and Social Policies is organizing a conversation about the discussion that is being held at the congress (and at the social level) about reducing the working day to 40 hours. This initiative is understood as part of our effort to connect with contingent public policy discussions and be a contribution to the national debate on this and other issues.

The conversation will take place on Tuesday, September 24 at 12:00 in the auditorium of the Manuel Montt campus of the Universidad Mayor (Manuel Montt 367).

Participants

• Rodrigo Valdés: Associate Professor of the School of Government of the Catholic University. Former Minister of Finance and former president of Banco Estado, Rodrigo Valdés studied his doctorate in economics at MIT after graduating in economics and having a degree in Business Engineering from the University of Chile. His research areas include monetary economics, international finance and public finance.
• José Luis Ugarte: José Luis Ugarte is a lawyer from the University of Chile and a Doctorate in Labor Law at the University of Salamanca, Spain. In the field of research, Professor Ugarte develops several lines of research within the Labor Law
• María Cecilia Cifuentes: Master in Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She is an associate professor of Financial Management at the ESE Business School of the Universidad de los Andes. His topics of interest are Economic Development, Financial Management and Labor Market, among others.

Moderator:

• Claudia Sanhueza: Doctor in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Director of the Center for Economics and Social Policies U. Mayor, and associate researcher of the Center for Conflict and Social Cohesion (COES). She has been president of the Pension Advisory Council, member of the CASEN Panel of Experts 2015 and 2017, member of the board of the National Foundation for Overcoming Poverty and the Research and Innovation Laboratory for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as various presidential commissions.

The conversation will be guided around three key questions that the guests will try to answer regarding the discussion about the reduction of the working day:

1. What is the diagnosis in this area?

2. What changes are necessary given this diagnosis?

3. What are the associated conflicts and how could we move forward?


Open activity, but with mandatory registration. Please register in this link.