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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JournalJournal on Education in Emergencies
Can Teacher Training Programs Influence Gender Norms? Mixed-Methods Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda
2017 Marjorie Chinen, Andrea Coombes, Thomas De Hoop, Rosa Castro-Zarzur, Mohammed Elmeski
This mixed-methods cluster-randomized controlled trial examines the impact of a teacher-training program that aimed to promote positive gender socialization in the conflict-affected region of Karamoja, Uganda. The theory of change suggests that the education system and teachers can play critical roles in promoting positive gender roles and gender equality, which has important implications for peacebuilding. […]
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Journal IZA Journal of Labor & Development
Psychosocial competencies and risky behaviours in Peru
2017 Marta Favara, Alan Sanchez
The authors use a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to investigate the relationship between psychosocial competencies related to the concepts of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and aspirations, and a number of risky behaviours at a crucial transition period between adolescence and early adulthood. First of all, they document a high prevalence of risky behaviours with 1 out of […]
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Social media instruments and the promotion of financial inclusion in peruvian rural areas
2017 Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
This study seeks to evaluate the use of short soap operas as a mechanism to promote the use of formal savings accounts among poor rural women that have been secularly excluded from healthy interactions with the formal financial sector. The authors developed a short soap opera (telenovela), named Josefa, which transmitted pro-savings messages using characters […]
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La carrera docente en el Perú
Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú: once balances2016 Juan Jose Diaz, Hugo Ñopo
This chapter examines recent advances and the remaining challenges in the teaching career in Peru. We explore the conditions of those studying to become teachers: their initial training, job access, and working conditions as teachers. To do this, we review both the national literature as well as part of the Latin American literature, and explore […]
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Diez años Juntos: un balance de la investigación del impacto del programa de transferencias condicionadas del Perú sobre el capital humano
Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú: once balances2016 Alan Sanchez, María Gracia Rodríguez
Juntos is the Peruvian government’s conditional cash transfer program. In recent years, a number of impact evaluations have been carried out with the aim of measuring the effect of Juntos on its conditionalities (the use of health and education services), as well as on the human capital accumulated by the beneficiaries. This study seeks to […]
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Una medición del impacto del Programa de Capacitación Laboral Juvenil PROJoven
2002,
El documento presenta una 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. Esta información fue recogida antes de iniciados los cursos de capacitación de la sexta convocatoria (línea de base) y después de […]
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Working within confines: occupational segregation by gender in three Latin American countries
2001,
This technical paper fills that void by constructing comparable data sets for Costa Rica, Ecuador and Uruguay over the 1989-1997 period.
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¿Existe subempleo profesional en el Perú urbano?
2001
El objetivo de este estudio es analizar el subempleo profesional (entendido como la discordancia ocupación-profesión) en el Perú urbano.
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Trabajando y estudiando en América Latina rural: decisiones críticas de los adolescentes
2001Lorena Alcazar,
This paper assesses the determinants of school attendance and work for rural adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18 between 1997-1998 for a selected sample of Latin American countries. The present research is based on household surveys, applied to members of different ages and backgrounds, and designed to make inferences about the determinants of […]
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Household and individual decision-making over the life cycle: a first look at the evidence from peruvian cohorts
2000Martin Valdivia,
We identify stylized facts about the implications of these changes at the micro level through the use of pseudo-panels from household-level data for Peru.
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Projects
News
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GRADE and Southern Voice join the CORE Initiative COVID-19 Responses for Equity
June 10, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
GRADE join CORE COVID-19 Responses for Equity, an initiative gathering 21 projects from 42 countries that seeks to understand the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, improve existing responses, and generate better policy options for recovery. Together with Southern Voice, our centre takes part with a project that focuses on how to achieve sustainable and gender inclusive improvements in food […]
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Unpaid Family Work: Informal and no income, by Hugo Ñopo
January 11, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“These people are probably in one of the most beautiful forms of cooperation and solidarity, but also in one of the most precarious working conditions. Is there anything more precarious than a zero-income labor informality?” Our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo writes in Foco Economico about who and where are unpaid family workers in Peru. Gathering the annual […]
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A victory of the agrarian workers?, by Miguel Jaramillo
December 9, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The most critical problem in the labor markets in our country, agricultural or in other sectors, is informality. Policies that want to favor workers should focus on this problem.” The new op-ed of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo for El Comercio addresses the repealed labor regime of the Agrarian Promotion Law.
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Lorena Alcázar joined a REDES podcast about the drama of the “ninis” in Peru
December 7, 2020 Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
“The vulnerability of young people in the context of a pandemic is usually associated only with the ‘NEETs’, but in reality the problem is more complex and heterogeneous. There are almost a third of women who, in most cases, are dedicated to maternity or domestic work “. Our senior researcher Lorena Alcazar joined the fifth episode of ‘Hablemos […]
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Miguel Jaramillo in RPP Noticias: Young people face informality and unemployment in the labor market
November 23, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“It is very difficult to think of a mechanism to cover these episodes of high unemployment, precarious or informal labor insertion, because we do not have well-established social protection systems that do not depend on employment status.” Our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo spoke with the journalist Patricia del Río of Radio Programa del Perú Noticias about […]
Events
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Eduardo Zegarra será expositor en la XVII Convención Nacional del Agro Peruano CONVEAGRO 2014
26/11/2014 → 26/11/2014 9:00 am Auditorio de la Asociación Peruana de Ingenieros Agrarios (Jr. Pablo Bermúdez N° 375, Jesús María) Employment, productivity and innovation, Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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GRADE y CIES co-organizan mesa sobre articulación de programas de alivio a la pobreza y desarrollo productivo, en el marco del XXV Seminario Anual CIES 2014
05/11/2014 8:20 am - 10:30 am Hotel Sonesta (Pancho Fierro, El Olivar - San Isidro) Employment, productivity and innovation, Rural development and agriculture, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Publication Presentation, GRADE on live
GRADE y el IEP presentaron el libro “América Latina hacia la inclusión social. Avances, aprendizajes y desafíos”, en el marco de ILAIPP
09/10/2014 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, 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
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El impacto económico de la legislación laboral
17/09/2014 9:00 am Sala de Eventos Especiales (Piso 3 – Pabellón F) de la Universidad del Pacífico (Av. Salaverry 2020, Jesús María) Employment, productivity and innovation
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Investigadores de GRADE participarán en el seminario internacional Protección social, emprendimiento y activación del mercado laboral: evidencias para mejores políticas
10/09/2014 → 11/09/2014 8:30 am - 7:30 pm Local de IPEA (Brasilia, Brasil) Employment, productivity and innovation, Rural development and agriculture, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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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






