Employment, Productivity and Innovation
The main objective of various projects carried out at GRADE in this area has been to assess the economic impacts of labor legislation and its effects on the hiring of temporary workers, on employment rotation and mobility, or non-salary labor costs and on the demand for formal employment. Additional issues include the insertion of youth in the labor market, self-employment rates, the role of micro and small-scale enterprises in employment generation, and policies for driving innovation in the country.
Senior Researchers
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Juan José Díaz Noziglia
PhD en Economics - University of Maryland
Juan José Díaz has a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His interests include the labor economy and evaluating social, educational, health and development programs.
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Miguel Jaramillo Baanante
PhD en History - University of California
Miguel Jaramillo has a degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He completed his graduate studies in Economics and History at the University of California, where he received a PhD in History. His areas of interests are labor economics, social policy and institutional analysis. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. […]
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Máximo Torero Cullen (de licencia)
PhD en Economics - University of California, Los Angeles
Maximo received a PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Economics and held a postdoctoral fellow position at the UCLA Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR). Currently, he is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Prior to joining FAO, he was the World Bank Group Executive Director for […]
External Affiliated Researchers
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Sonia Laszlo
PhD en - University of Toronto
Sonia Laszlo is Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development. Her main research areas cover many aspects of applied microeconomic analysis in economic development: rural development, access to markets, and the relationship between income, health and education in economic development. In addition to using traditional analytic tools […]
Visiting Researchers
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Alessandro Goglio
PhD en - Graduate Institute of International Studies
Alessandro is a senior international economist with extensive experience advising governments on long-term reforms, policies, and programs, particularly in the areas of social and labor market reforms. He currently teaches Public Economics at LIUC Università Cattaneo (Castellanza, Italy), School of Economics, following thirty years at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. […]
Publications
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¿Son los contratos temporales un peldaño hacia un contrato por tiempo indeterminado?
2019 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
During the last decades, the use of fixed-term contracts has grown around the world, a phenomenon that has gone hand in hand with reductions in the probability of obtaining a contract for an indeterminate period of time. Fixed-term contracts could be used as a means to assess the skills of new workers before they are […]
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Los efectos desprotectores de la protección del empleo. El impacto de la reforma del contrato laboral de 2001
2019 Miguel Jaramillo, Julio Almonacid, Luciana de la Flor
Four out of every five labor relations in the formal sector of the Peruvian economy are covered by temporary contracts. This proportion is significantly higher than that of any country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and higher than that of any Latin American country. This publication presents the results of a […]
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La transición hacia el mercado laboral y los estudios postsecundarios en Perú: evidencia del estudio Niños del Milenio
Millennials en América Latina y el Caribe: ¿trabajar o estudiar?2018 Marta Favara, Alan Sanchez
Unlike the previous chapters, the report on Peru draws on a unique source of information: the Young Lives study, which collected longitudinal data. For 15 years, this research followed two groups of adolescents and young people born in the years 1994-1995 and 2001-2002, respectively. Drawing on the information obtained, this chapter pursues two objectives. The […]
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La importancia de las prácticas preprofesionales en la transición al empleo. Un estudio en las ciudades capitales del Perú
2018 Luciana de la Flor
Professional unemployment and underemployment are problems that affect thousands of Peruvians. Their incidence is generally attributed to a mismatch between labor demand and supply. University education does not guarantee a job appropriate to the academic level obtained. Pre-professional internships are a low-cost, high-impact intervention to attack this problem. Far from being a government intervention, many […]
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JournalJournal of International Development
Health impacts of a public-private partnership rural roads maintenance programme
2018 Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
The authors provide evidence of health impacts of a public-private rural roads maintenance programme in Peru, which is characterized by a contracting mechanism that employs small local firms. Using a difference‐in‐differences approach, they find that improved roads connectivity leads to positive health externalities.
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Occupational Training to Reduce Gender Segregation: The Impacts of ProJoven
2007,
The paper discusses program evaluation for ProJoven, the Peruvian youth labor training program. Complementing detailed fieldwork, the econometric work implements a two-stage matching procedure on propensity scores, gender and labor income. This allows identification of differentiated program impacts on males and females and attacks the problem of Ashenfelter’s Dips. The evaluation shows substantial differences in […]
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¿Cómo se ajusta el mercado de trabajo ante cambios en el salario mínimo en el Perú?: una evaluación de la experiencia de la última década
2006Miguel Jaramillo,
After reaching a historic peak in 1986, the minimum wage fell sharply, along with the average level of wages, until the early 1990s. Since the mid-1990s, however, it has risen sharply, approaching the average level of wages for both unskilled and informal workers. This study describes the institutional framework of the minimum wage in the […]
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An evaluation of the peruvian “Youth Labor Training Program” – Projoven
2006Miguel Jaramillo, Juan Jose Diaz,
The “Youth Labor Training Program” (Programa de Capacitacion Laboral Juvenil – PROJoven) is an ongoing job-training program created in 1996 by the Ministry of Labor (Ministerio de Trabajo y Promocion del Empleo) in response to the precarious conditions of youth in the Peruvian labor market. The goals of the program are to improve employment opportunities […]
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La brecha salarial entre los sexos en Chile en 1992-2003 desde una perspectiva de comparaciones emparejadas
2006,
En el documento de trabajo se analiza la evolución de la brecha salarial entre los sexos en Chile durante el período de 1992 a 2003, empleándose el enfoque de descomposición desarrollado en Ñopo (2004). Este enfoque, en el que se descompone la brecha salarial en cuatro elementos aditivos, se hace hincapié en la necesidad de […]
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Social capital and education outcomes in urban and rural Peru
2005Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon,
Although enrolment in primary schools in Peru is very high, more than half of primary school children are one or more grades below the norm for their age. Furthermore, evaluations have shown that, when tested, Peruvian school children score well below the norms expected for their age. Their scores are also below the average levels […]
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Projects
News
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Miguel Jaramillo shared his thoughts in Forbes Peru about the increase in the minimum wage announced by Pedro Castillo
November 11, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The recovery of employment has basically been due to the informalization of labor relations. Formal employment is stagnant. Raising the minimum wage is not understanding what the problem in the economy is”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, shared his opinion at Forbes Peru about the economic effects of President Castillo’s announcement.
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Media GRADE, Interview, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo in TV Peru: A balance of the first 100 days of government
November 11, 2021 Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
What has been achieved and what is pending in the economy in the first 100 days of government? According to Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researche at GRADE, although in the macro and in health we are doing well, in education, “it should be enormously alarming that today our students are not returning to the classroom in a majority number”. […]
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Studies by GRADE researchers on the minimum wage are quoted by IPE via El Comercio
October 18, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
The Peruvian Institute of Economics explains why the results found by David Card, 2021 Nobel Laureate in Economics —that a minimum wage increase does not necessarily generate unemployment— would not be applicable for Peru. In the article, he quotes the work of our senior researchers Alan Sánchez, Miguel Jaramillo, and Hugo Ñopo.
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Media GRADE, Opinion Article, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Towards a more functional labor market, by Paola del Carpio and Miguel Jaramillo
September 26, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Although our norms point to salaried relationships indefinitely, what we have is a labor market with predominantly informal relationships, which affect more than 9 million Peruvians. In addition, within formality, short-term relationships predominate. Informality is a determining problem to grow with resilience”. Read the recent op-ed by Paola del Carpio (REDES) and Miguel Jaramillo (GRADE) vía […]
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Media GRADE, Reference, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts in RPP Noticias on the recovery of employment after the crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic
September 24, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
According to Miguel Jaramillo, currently informal employees have income 20% lower than what they registered before the pandemic. Read the article from RPP Noticias with the opinion of our Senior Researcher on the recovery of employment after the crisis.
Events
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Publication Presentation, GRADE on live
Presentación: Desarrollo en Las Américas, edición 2017: Aprender Mejor: Políticas Públicas para el Desarrollo de Habilidades
05/10/2017 9:00 am - 11:00 am Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
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Presentaciones de investigadores de GRADE en el V Congreso Anual de la Asociación Peruana de Economía APE 2017
11/08/2017 → 12/08/2017 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Universidad de Lima Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Rural development and agriculture, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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Ricardo Fort joined The Safe & Inclusive Cities Exchange 2017, funded by IDRC and DFID, in Nairobi
29/05/2017 5:00 am Radisson Blu Hotel - Nairobi, Kenya Urbanization and sustainable cities, Employment, productivity and innovation
Our senior researcher, Ricardo Fort, discussed the first findings of his study “Community based organization and spontaneous urban planning: keys for a rational urbanization process in the absence of the state” at The Safe & Inclusive Cities Exchange 2017 SAICx17, en Nairobi. The meeting is the main event of The Safe and Inclusive Cities (SAIC) initiative, funded by […]
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Hugo Ñopo will be speaker at Oxford University “A Better Future for Women at Work: Legal and Policy Strategies” International Conference
18/05/2017 3:10 pm - 4:10 pm Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
Despite numerous legal and policy interventions women continue to face significant disadvantage in both formal and informal work. The law, as currently conceived, has been unable to fully achieve women’s equality in the labour force. However, while it is important to question whether we can rely exclusively on the law to fully address the continuing and […]
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Martin Valdivia will share “The Role of Social Skills and Networks in the Fight against Poverty”, at University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas event
04/04/2017 1:00 pm Albert Pick Hall 1541 Brescia Ave. Suite 110 Coral Gables Employment, productivity and innovation
Our senior researcher, Martín Valdivia, will share “The Role of Social Skills and Networks in the Fight against Poverty”, at the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, on Tueday, April 4. The presentation is part of the Institute’s Research Lunch Series. Development economics devoted decades to addressing key market failures and made some […]
- Education and Learning
- Employment, Productivity and Innovation
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Ethnicity, Gender and Citizenship
- Methodologies for Research and Evaluation of Policy and Programmes
- Poverty and Equity
- Natural Resources, Extractive Industries and Social Conflict
- State Reform and Public Institutions
- Health and Nutrition
- Urbanization and Sustainable Cities
