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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Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
2017 Marjorie Chinen, Thomas de Hoop, Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin, Josh Sennett
This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low- and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty-five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi-experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta-synthesis includes findings from […]
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Understanding the Role of the Couple in Key Decisions and Actions of the Female Entrepreneur in Peru
Measuring women’s economic empowerment: Lessons from South America2017 Martin Valdivia
For this study, the author analyzed two variants of the question about the extent to which women evidence agency: women’s participation in making key business decisions and men’s participation in carrying out household chores in urban Peru. The objective of the analysis was to understand in a better way the relationship between women entrepreneurs and their […]
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Los efectos desprotectores de la protección del empleo: el impacto de la reforma del contrato laboral del 2001
2017 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 grossly higher than that of any OECD country and also considerably higher than that of any of the countries in our Latin American region. The purpose of this study is to elucidate […]
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How do Latin American migrants in the U.S. stand on schooling premium? What does it reveal about education quality in their home countries?
2017 Daniel Alonso-Soto, Hugo Ñopo
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world’s population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the U.S. (Bratsberg and Terrell 2002). […]
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El género y las trayectorias hacia la adultez en el Perú: educación, trabajo y maternidad/paternidad
2017 Vanessa Rojas, Gabriela Guerrero, Jimena Vargas
In this paper we examine how gender affects the educational, employment and parenting trajectories of a sample of young people growing up in poverty in Peru. We report the outcomes and trajectories of 26 members of the older cohort who participated in the qualitative research of the longitudinal study Niños del Milenio between 2007 and […]
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Ethnicity and Earnings in Urban Peru
2004, Maximo Torero,
In this paper the authors study the relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. The authors approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its several dimensions: mother tongue, parental background, religion, migration events and race. In order to approximate what can be called racial differences in a […]
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Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps
2004,
In the paper the author presents a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages. The approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of observable characteristics and provides useful insights about the distribution of the unexplained gender differences in pay. The proposed methodology, a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca […]
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Privatización en el Perú: impacto en el desempeño de las empresas
2003Maximo Torero,
In the nearly ten years since Peru privatized major State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), the overall impact of the process is not yet clear.
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Estructura del hogar y ahorro durante el ciclo de vida: evidencia de las cohortes peruanas
2003Martin Valdivia,
Análisis de la evidencia empírica de los arreglos intergeneracionales de coresidencia y ahorro familiar sobre el seguimiento de cohortes a lo largo de cuatro rondas de la Enaho sobre Medición de Niveles de Vida.
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Una medición del impacto del Programa de Capacitación Laboral Juvenil ProJoven
2002,
Medición de impacto del programa de capacitación laboral juvenil PROJoven. Se utilizó información socio-laboral de una muestra de beneficiarios y un conjunto de individuos que conformaron el grupo de control.
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Projects
News
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Economist David Tuesta highlights studies by Hugo Ñopo and Miguel Jaramillo in his op-ed on pension reform
August 29, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
In his El Comercio op-ed, “The key piece to reform pensions”, David Tuesta addresses the pension reform in Peru. According to the economist, one of the key points of this reform is the effect of cost overruns in the labor market. “The presence of monetary and non-monetary contracting costs -such as the “adequate protection” established by […]
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Media GRADE, Comment, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo shared his thoughts on the challenges facing the country despite the economy has overcome the recession
August 24, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
‘It is magnificent that the GDP is rebounding. But how do people benefit from that recovery when the employment and salary figures are not flattering? In these two indicators we are not close to pre-pandemic levels.’ Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, shared his opinion on the challenges due to the political turbulence and the consequences of the pandemic facing […]
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Interview, GRADE frente al COVID-19, Media GRADE
Hugo Ñopo analyzes the new Yanapay bonus in RPP Noticias
August 21, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“(The bonus) it is a stimulus to demand, but it is necessary to complement a stimulus to production. The Government has spoken of the creation of a million jobs, but the number is not so relevant, but rather to ask what productivity those jobs are going to have. Who in the economy is the one […]
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Media GRADE, Comment, GRADE frente al COVID-19
RPP Noticias highlights Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion about the recovery of employment rates
August 10, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“I would expect that, under an estimated GDP growth of 3% for 2022, which is optimistic (since some predict that GDP could fall), the increase in formal employment will be close to zero (0%), unless the Ministerial Cabinet gives signs of confidence to private investment “. Read the opinion of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo on […]
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Media GRADE, Comment, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Perú Debate: Miguel Jaramillo talked with Gustavo Yamada about employment and labor informality
June 17, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Going towards a system where companies contract formally and can live in formality in a simpler way is clearly the route to follow. In addition, social protection is an element that the population is demanding and that would allow, under a scheme less burdened towards the labor market, that companies have a higher level of […]
Events
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GRADE’s researchers join the 3rd Peruvian Economic Association Annual Congress
05/08/2016 → 06/08/2016 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Campus PUCP (Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel) Employment, productivity and innovation, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, State reform and public institutions
Several of our researchers will join the 3rd Peruvian Economic Association APE Annual Congress, on August 5-6 2016, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The meeting will gather research economists, mainly Peruvian, to discuss recent studies in diverse fields of Economics. The congress takes part of several activities undertake by APE since its founding in 2014, for promoting and […]
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Martín Valdivia, Lorena Alcázar y Eduardo Zegarra participarán en la conferencia anual de PEP, en Filipinas
06/06/2016 → 08/06/2016 Manila, Filipinas Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
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GRADE celebra sus 35 años de vida institucional con la conferencia Avances recientes en la investigación y políticas para el desarrollo
25/11/2015 → 26/11/2015 3:30pm - 7:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) 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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Martín Valdivia participará en la conferencia anual y reunión general de PEP en Nairobi
29/04/2015 → 08/05/2015 Safari Park Hotel Off The Thika Super Highway Thika Road, Nairobi, Kenya Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality
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El rol de GRADE en el fortalecimiento de capacidades para la evaluación de impacto es destacado en el marco del Think Tank Exchange 2015
18/02/2015 → 20/02/2015 8:30 am - 5:30 pm Estambul, Turquía Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality
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- 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
