A Biehl
Biographic Data
| ID | 71822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Biehl |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Biehl |
| SIGNATURE | BIEHL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9795-8431 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Segmented paths, shared beliefs? Employment histories and welfare preferences in Chile
Introduction: In Latin America, employment status consistently fails to predict redistributive attitudes. This is a puzzle given that labor market informality shapes access to social protection. Yet most studies rely on cross-sectional data, overlooking how cumulative work trajectories across the life course structure welfare preferences. This article examines how formal and informal employment histories shape current preferences for redistributi…
Pluralisation and differentiation of employment patterns in five liberal regime countries
This study examines the standard employment life course among the post‐war generation in five countries traditionally classified as liberal and investigates variations in the pluralisation and differentiation of life course employment patterns within liberal welfare states. Using retrospective data from five liberal‐leaning countries (England, Ireland, Switzerland, the United States, and Chile) we reconstruct men's and women's working trajectorie…
Beyond Work–Life Balance: Multilevel Strategies Across the Life Course of Older Women Who Remain in Work in Chile
Research on work–life balance and extended working lives largely assumes institutional supports that make reconciliation feasible. Drawing on 46 retrospective life‐story interviews with economically active older women in Chile, we challenge this assumption by showing that conciliation under institutional scarcity is not a stable “balance,” but a cumulative, reserve‐dependent configuration process shaped by thresholds of depletion and replenishmen…
Gendered adulthood trajectories and extended working lives across liberal regime countries
While there is consensus about the combined relevance of liberal regime policies and gendered employment and family trajectories in adulthood, for shaping employment in later life, so far there is no single cross-national study simultaneously addressing these dimensions. Drawing on exceptionally rich, harmonised life history data, we explore the association between employment and family patterns in adulthood, and the prevalence, duration and dive…
Class-based taxation: The fiscal paternalism of the Chilean income tax
This article analyzes the history of the Chilean personal income tax (PIT) to explain the persistence of a class-based and progressive PIT within a context of a regressive fiscal system. We provide new archival evidence regarding fiscal politics since the nineteenth century to estimate the generalization of the PIT between 1925 and 2014. Combining statistical information and parliamentary records, we follow the PIT’s trajectory in relation to eli…
Biographies of uncertainty regulation in the labor market and extension of working life in Chile
Despite lacking policies targeting the extension of working life, Chile is the Latin American country that has exhibited the largest increase in the labor force participation rate of people aged 65+ in the last two decades. In this research, following an analytical framework on regulation of endogenous uncertainty and relying on rich qualitative data (life story interviews of 90 older workers aged 60–86, across 21 cities and 6 regions), we approa…
Continuity and Change of Religious Affiliation in Contexts of Rapid Transformations: The Chilean 1938-1963 Generation
Socially stratified associations between self-employment and health among Chilean older people
Non-standard forms of employment, such as self-employment, are among the most prevalent routes for older people to access the workforce. While the financial benefits of any form of self-employment in later life have been widely acknowledged, less is known about their impact on health. This study explores the association between self-employment and 16 health outcomes among older people with different social stratification characteristics in Chile,…
Mapuche Transitions from Education to Work: Vulnerable Transitions and Unequal Outcomes
This article investigates vulnerabilities in transitions from secondary and tertiary education to work among the indigenous Mapuche youth in Chile. The study draws from a 2014 social survey and qualitative in-depth interviews of indigenous students in secondary and higher education focused on the magnitude of accumulative disadvantages and the decision processes involved in their choice of future life-paths. Despite socioeconomic convergence with…
From reciprocity to welfare: Rerum Novarum, Catholicism, and early social security in Latin America
This article explores the role of Catholicism after the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), in shaping early Latin American social security. While social security is often interpreted as the outcome of organized distributional struggles, recent scholarship has begun to pay attention to the religious origins of a variety of social security systems. Building on this "religious turn", the article reviews how research on religious traditions and t…
Gender Differences in Retirement Behavior: How Family, Work, and Pension Regime Explain Retirement in Chile
While there is vast research on the Chilean pension system, its financial sustainability, and overall effects on the economy, the literature is scanter about gender differences in retirement and its determinants in the context of a high-income developing country with low rates of female labor market participation and less generous welfare provisions. This study seeks to address these gaps. Employing data from the Longitudinal Social Protection Su…
Gender differences in retirement in Chile and Uruguay
Purpose This study compares retirement in Chile and Uruguay, and focuses on current individuals legally entitled to retire, particularly women. The article analyses how labour market and family resources shape the access of women and men to social insurance by investigating the likelihood of retirement after reaching the legal age of retirement. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the Longitudinal Social Protection Survey (LSPS), a biannu…
Towards a Fiscal Sociology of Latin America
Tax systems in Latin America are characterized by low collection, a higher incidence of regressive taxes and mechanisms, little redistribution, and poor compliance. Policymakers and international organizations have proposed reforms across the region with the aim of increasing revenue for social expenditures and sustainable growth. These challenges, how-ever, are not new: Latin American countries have historically tried to build effective and egal…
Taxes without Taxpayers: The Invisibility of Taxes in Chile
This study documents the existing gap between tax structure and tax visibility using evidence from a nationally representative survey in Chile around the time of a contentious tax reform bill. Debates over taxation often assume that taxpayers know the scale and reach of their tax obligations and the benefits associated to paying taxes, which are crucial to the success of taxation as a tool for development. We tested the assumption of a well-infor…
Biographies of uncertainty regulation in the labor market and extension of working life in Chile
Despite lacking policies targeting the extension of working life, Chile is the Latin American country that has exhibited the largest increase in the labor force participation rate of people aged 65+ in the last two decades. In this research, following an analytical framework on regulation of endogenous uncertainty and relying on rich qualitative data (life story interviews of 90 older workers aged 60–86, across 21 cities and 6 regions), we approa…
Gender Differences in Retirement Behavior: How Family, Work, and Pension Regime Explain Retirement in Chile
While there is vast research on the Chilean pension system, its financial sustainability, and overall effects on the economy, the literature is scanter about gender differences in retirement and its determinants in the context of a high-income developing country with low rates of female labor market participation and less generous welfare provisions. This study seeks to address these gaps. Employing data from the Longitudinal Social Protection Su…
Taxes without Taxpayers: The Invisibility of Taxes in Chile
This study documents the existing gap between tax structure and tax visibility using evidence from a nationally representative survey in Chile around the time of a contentious tax reform bill. Debates over taxation often assume that taxpayers know the scale and reach of their tax obligations and the benefits associated to paying taxes, which are crucial to the success of taxation as a tool for development. We tested the assumption of a well-infor…
Socially stratified associations between self-employment and health among Chilean older people
Non-standard forms of employment, such as self-employment, are among the most prevalent routes for older people to access the workforce. While the financial benefits of any form of self-employment in later life have been widely acknowledged, less is known about their impact on health. This study explores the association between self-employment and 16 health outcomes among older people with different social stratification characteristics in Chile,…
Gender differences in retirement in Chile and Uruguay
Purpose This study compares retirement in Chile and Uruguay, and focuses on current individuals legally entitled to retire, particularly women. The article analyses how labour market and family resources shape the access of women and men to social insurance by investigating the likelihood of retirement after reaching the legal age of retirement. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the Longitudinal Social Protection Survey (LSPS), a biannu…
Towards a Fiscal Sociology of Latin America
Tax systems in Latin America are characterized by low collection, a higher incidence of regressive taxes and mechanisms, little redistribution, and poor compliance. Policymakers and international organizations have proposed reforms across the region with the aim of increasing revenue for social expenditures and sustainable growth. These challenges, how-ever, are not new: Latin American countries have historically tried to build effective and egal…
Towards a Fiscal Sociology of Latin America
Tax systems in Latin America are characterized by low collection, a higher incidence of regressive taxes and mechanisms, little redistribution, and poor compliance. Policymakers and international organizations have proposed reforms across the region with the aim of increasing revenue for social expenditures and sustainable growth. These challenges, how-ever, are not new: Latin American countries have historically tried to build effective and egal…
Taxes without Taxpayers: The Invisibility of Taxes in Chile
This study documents the existing gap between tax structure and tax visibility using evidence from a nationally representative survey in Chile around the time of a contentious tax reform bill. Debates over taxation often assume that taxpayers know the scale and reach of their tax obligations and the benefits associated to paying taxes, which are crucial to the success of taxation as a tool for development. We tested the assumption of a well-infor…
Gender Differences in Retirement Behavior: How Family, Work, and Pension Regime Explain Retirement in Chile
While there is vast research on the Chilean pension system, its financial sustainability, and overall effects on the economy, the literature is scanter about gender differences in retirement and its determinants in the context of a high-income developing country with low rates of female labor market participation and less generous welfare provisions. This study seeks to address these gaps. Employing data from the Longitudinal Social Protection Su…
Gender differences in retirement in Chile and Uruguay
Purpose This study compares retirement in Chile and Uruguay, and focuses on current individuals legally entitled to retire, particularly women. The article analyses how labour market and family resources shape the access of women and men to social insurance by investigating the likelihood of retirement after reaching the legal age of retirement. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the Longitudinal Social Protection Survey (LSPS), a biannu…
Mapuche Transitions from Education to Work: Vulnerable Transitions and Unequal Outcomes
This article investigates vulnerabilities in transitions from secondary and tertiary education to work among the indigenous Mapuche youth in Chile. The study draws from a 2014 social survey and qualitative in-depth interviews of indigenous students in secondary and higher education focused on the magnitude of accumulative disadvantages and the decision processes involved in their choice of future life-paths. Despite socioeconomic convergence with…
From reciprocity to welfare: Rerum Novarum, Catholicism, and early social security in Latin America
This article explores the role of Catholicism after the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), in shaping early Latin American social security. While social security is often interpreted as the outcome of organized distributional struggles, recent scholarship has begun to pay attention to the religious origins of a variety of social security systems. Building on this "religious turn", the article reviews how research on religious traditions and t…
Socially stratified associations between self-employment and health among Chilean older people
Non-standard forms of employment, such as self-employment, are among the most prevalent routes for older people to access the workforce. While the financial benefits of any form of self-employment in later life have been widely acknowledged, less is known about their impact on health. This study explores the association between self-employment and 16 health outcomes among older people with different social stratification characteristics in Chile,…
Biographies of uncertainty regulation in the labor market and extension of working life in Chile
Despite lacking policies targeting the extension of working life, Chile is the Latin American country that has exhibited the largest increase in the labor force participation rate of people aged 65+ in the last two decades. In this research, following an analytical framework on regulation of endogenous uncertainty and relying on rich qualitative data (life story interviews of 90 older workers aged 60–86, across 21 cities and 6 regions), we approa…
Continuity and Change of Religious Affiliation in Contexts of Rapid Transformations: The Chilean 1938-1963 Generation
Class-based taxation: The fiscal paternalism of the Chilean income tax
This article analyzes the history of the Chilean personal income tax (PIT) to explain the persistence of a class-based and progressive PIT within a context of a regressive fiscal system. We provide new archival evidence regarding fiscal politics since the nineteenth century to estimate the generalization of the PIT between 1925 and 2014. Combining statistical information and parliamentary records, we follow the PIT’s trajectory in relation to eli…
Segmented paths, shared beliefs? Employment histories and welfare preferences in Chile
Introduction: In Latin America, employment status consistently fails to predict redistributive attitudes. This is a puzzle given that labor market informality shapes access to social protection. Yet most studies rely on cross-sectional data, overlooking how cumulative work trajectories across the life course structure welfare preferences. This article examines how formal and informal employment histories shape current preferences for redistributi…
Pluralisation and differentiation of employment patterns in five liberal regime countries
This study examines the standard employment life course among the post‐war generation in five countries traditionally classified as liberal and investigates variations in the pluralisation and differentiation of life course employment patterns within liberal welfare states. Using retrospective data from five liberal‐leaning countries (England, Ireland, Switzerland, the United States, and Chile) we reconstruct men's and women's working trajectorie…
Beyond Work–Life Balance: Multilevel Strategies Across the Life Course of Older Women Who Remain in Work in Chile
Research on work–life balance and extended working lives largely assumes institutional supports that make reconciliation feasible. Drawing on 46 retrospective life‐story interviews with economically active older women in Chile, we challenge this assumption by showing that conciliation under institutional scarcity is not a stable “balance,” but a cumulative, reserve‐dependent configuration process shaped by thresholds of depletion and replenishmen…
Gendered adulthood trajectories and extended working lives across liberal regime countries
While there is consensus about the combined relevance of liberal regime policies and gendered employment and family trajectories in adulthood, for shaping employment in later life, so far there is no single cross-national study simultaneously addressing these dimensions. Drawing on exceptionally rich, harmonised life history data, we explore the association between employment and family patterns in adulthood, and the prevalence, duration and dive…
Economics (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Life course approach (5 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Law (4 works)