PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- Figure 1 Trends in economic growth and per capita income, 1960-97 -- PART I TRENDS IN GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS -- A. THE DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF GLOBALIZATION -- Figure 2 Trade and investment flows, 1975-97 -- B. AN OVERVIEW OF SOCIAL PROGRESS INDICATORS -- Improvements in aggregate employment and wages, and a drop in poverty levels -- Figure 3 Labour market trends, 1980-97 -- Figure 4 Average real wages, 1980-97 (1980=100) -- Figure 5 Poverty rates, 1987-96 (as a percentage of total population) -- Figure 6 Public health indicators, 1970-95 -- Income inequality -- Figure 7 Income distribution by quintiles of households, 1987-96 -- Figure 8 Income distribution indicators, 1957-96 -- Figure 9 Ratio of hourly wages for salaried male university graduates to hourly wages for salaried male high-school graduates, 1959-96 -- Figure 10 Indicators of the wage share in national income -- Table 1 Average monthly earnings by sex and education, 1996 -- Unequal opportunity -- Figure 11 Probability of completing secondary and tertiary education by level of education of the father, 1992 -- Table 2 Socio-economic indicators by income quintile -- Employment quality -- Figure 12 Indicators of labour turnover, 1965-94 -- Table 3 Employment quality indicators by employment category, 1996 -- Figure 13 Composition of employment by category for different levels of education, 1996 -- Table 4 Index of average earnings by employment category and education, 1996 -- Notes -- PART I I ASSESSING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION -- A. PATTERNS OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE -- Trade patterns -- Figure 14 Export structure by main sectors, 1974, 1985, 1997 -- Table 5 Main export products, 1980, 1990, 1996 -- Table 6 Composition of Chilean exports by geographic destination, 1995.

Comparisons between export-oriented and import-competing sectors -- Table 7 Indicators of revealed comparative advantage, 1985, 1994 -- Figure 15 Average earnings by economic sector, 1996 -- Table 8 Employment by category and type of economic sector, 1996 -- Table 9 Composition of employment by educational attainment and economic sector 1 , 1996 -- Table 10 Average monthly earnings by education and economic sector, 1996 -- B. TRADE, AGGREGATE INCOME AND SUSTAINABILITY -- Table 11 Evolution of world markets for Chile's main export products, 1980-96 -- Table 12 Price variability of main manufacturing export sectors, 1963-95 -- Table 13 Terms of trade by country, 1970-96 -- C. TRADE AND INCOME INEQUALITIES -- A brief review of the literature -- A theoretical analysis -- Box 1 A factor-specific model of international trade -- Empirical analysis -- Figure 16 Comparative performance of export-oriented and import-competing manufacturing sectors -- Figure 17 Estimated determinants of wage and income inequalities, 1960-96 -- D. TRADE PATTERNS AND EMPLOYMENT QUALITY -- E. SELECTED SECTORAL CASE STUDIES -- A traditional export sector in transition: Copper -- Figure 18 Average wages in the copper industry, 1995 -- Table 14 Indicators of working hours and rate of accidents in the copper industry, by type of employment, 1996 -- An emerging export sector: Forestry -- Table 15 Forestry exports, 1970-97 -- An import-substituting sector in crisis: Textiles and garments -- Figure 19 Imports and exports of textile and garment products, 1984-97 -- Table 16 Employment quality indicators in a sample of workers in subcontracted enterprises of the garment industry, 1997 -- Notes -- PART III POLICY ISSUES -- A. CONSOLIDATING INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION -- B. PROTECTING PEOPLE AGAINST LABOUR AND SOCIAL INSECURITIES -- Labour insecurity.

Table 17 International comparison of selected aspects of unemployment benefit systems -- Social policy, poverty reduction and income distribution -- Table 18 Efficiency of economic growth in terms of poverty reduction, 1987-96 -- Table 19 Distributive effect of social spending, 1994 -- Reducing the inequality of opportunities -- Table 20 Performance of primary school pupils by type of establishment -- C. LABOUR MARKET REGULATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS -- Table 21 International comparison of legislation on dismissals -- Table 22 International comparison of minimum wages -- Table 24 Trade union membership and coverage of collective bargaining, 1986-97 -- Notes -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Note -- ANNEX 1 Wage and income differentials: A brief review of the literature -- ANNEX 2 DETERMINANTS OF WAGE AND INCOME DIFFERENTIALS: AN ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS -- Table A1 Determinants of wage and income differentials: Econometric estimates -- Table A2 Estimated contributions of trade, technology and education to wage and income differentials -- Notes -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.