Program Overview

Postgraduate Diploma in Social and Labor Policies

Overview

The Postgraduate Diploma in Social and Labor Policies is an interdisciplinary program designed for professionals with a university degree in areas such as economics, social sciences, law, engineering, and similar fields.

###Objective The objective of the diploma is to combine analytical and operational elements used in the study of inequality, poverty, and the labor market, as well as in the design of social security systems.

Academic Director

The Academic Director is Jaime Ruiz-Tagle, Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge, with areas of specialization including:

• Impact Assessment
• Labor Economics
• Social Policies
• Poverty
• Income Distribution
• Household Financial Economics

Program Structure

The program consists of two main modules:

Social Security (Mar to Jun)

1. Studying populations basic demographics
2. Intergenerational National Accounts
3. The Future of Social Protection
4. Access to financing and solidarity in Health
5. The Isapres crisis and the future of the Health system
6. Access to financing and solidarity in Pensions; the use of Notional Accounts
7. Access Financing and solidarity in social programs
8. Limits of state intervention and market extension in the Chilean Social Contract
9. Production and enjoyment of social rights
10. Profit and gratuitousness in the provision of social rights
11. Insurance Theory, private and social
12. Wellbeing: Distribution and poverty
13. Middle class, vulnerability and scarcity
14. Presentation of works

Inequality, Poverty and Social Policy (Jun to Oct)

1. Regulatory Debate
2. Poverty: definitions and measurement
3. Poverty in Chile
4. Theory and measurements of inequality
5. Discrimination
6. Global Inequality
7. Inequality in Chile
8. Informality
9. Social Policies (general)
10. Social Policies (Chile)

Institutions

The program is affiliated with the following institutions:

• University of Chile
• FEN DECON
• Microdata