translated from Spanish: Government presents Commission of Experts for advice on job recovery

The Ministers of Labor and Social Security, Patricio Melero; Finance Minister Rodrigo Cerda and Economy Minister Lucas Palacios announced the creation of a Committee of Experts, whose purpose will be to support and advise on the evaluation and improvement of the instruments that are available for the recovery of jobs. This commission, which began today, will feature 10 experts from various fields, including Alfonso Swett, former president of the Confederation of Production and Trade (CPC) between 2018 and 2020; Carlos Boada, department director of Estudios Conapyme and Multigremial Nacional; David Bravo, director of the UC Center for Surveys and Longitudinal Studies; Francisca Jünemann president and co-founder of the ChileMujeres Foundation; Lorena Flores Executive Director of the Microdata Center of the University of Chile, Marcela Perticará, Director of the Department of Economics of the Alberto Hurtado University, and Sergio Urzúa, Associate Professor at the University of Meryland, research associate of the NBER, IZA and Clapes-UC, among others.” What we are doing as a government is preparing for a post-pandemic phase, which will hopefully express a higher level of economic recovery, a lower level of confinement and a greater hiring of workers in order to lower the unemployment rates that we have until today. We are anticipating a process of recovery and we also want to have the instruments, the subsidies, the benefits, assimilated to a reality of greater reactivation so that this virtuous circle of state aid can take place with private reactivation and with that promote greater employment, “said Minister Melero.

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