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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Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú: once balances
2016
Este libro recoge los once balances de investigación presentados en la conferencia Avances Recientes en la Investigación y Políticas para el Desarrollo, organizada en el marco del 35 aniversario del Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE). Los textos de esta publicación buscan continuar satisfaciendo la demanda de conocimiento dirigida a sostener un debate más […]
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Estrategia de ciencia, tecnología, capital humano: innovación y productividad para el desarrollo
Estrategias para el Desarrollo Económico y Social del Perú2016 Juana Kuramoto
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Towards an inclusive and sustainable development in Latin America: dialogue between research and public policies
2016
Esta publicación es resultado del seminario internacional Hacia un Desarrollo Inclusivo y Sostenible en América Latina: Diálogos entre Investigación y Políticas Públicas, organizado por el Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) y el Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP), el 25 y 26 de junio de 2014. Representa un esfuerzo de recopilación de lo más relevante y valioso […]
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JournalLaborem
La perspectiva económica de la regulación laboral y la legislación laboral peruana
2016 Miguel Jaramillo
In this presentation I would like to convey to you the view of labor market regulation from the perspective of economics. In other words, how economists see labor law regulations, their motivations and objectives. From this reflection and the discussion of international evidence he presented some reflections on the regulation of the Peruvian labor market.
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Productividad y apertura comercial en el Perú
Productividad en el Perú: medición, determinantes e implicancias2016 Nikita Céspedes, Maria E. Aquije, Alan Sanchez, Rafael Vera-Tudela
We study the relationship between productivity and trade openness in Peru. We find that firms that participate in international trade, either as exporters and/or importers, have systematically higher productivity compared to those that only produce for the domestic market. Free trade agreements, on average, generate a positive productivity gap, and firms that export to the […]
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Labor market reforms and their impact on formal labor demand and job market turnover: the case of Peru
2000Maximo Torero,
This paper analyzes the effects of several aspects of labor legislation that were modified through successive waves of reform since 1991.
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Estabilidad laboral e indenmización: efectos de los costos de despido sobre el funcionamiento del mercado laboral peruano
2000
Análisis del impacto de los componentes del costo de despido por interacción de la legislación sobre estabilidad laboral, la indemnización por despido y periodo de prueba sobre el mercado laboral peruano.
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El potencial de generación de empleo de la agricultura peruana
1999Miguel Jaramillo,
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Estructura de ingresos en Lima Metropolitana: 1986-1995
1999Juan Jose Diaz,
La investigación analiza la evolución de los ingresos relativos entre grupos de la fuerza de trabajo que se definen según género, educación y experiencia.
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Desigualdad del ingreso y del gasto en el Perú antes y después de las reformas estructurales
1999Juan Jose Diaz,
Con información de encuestas de hogares, se encuentra que la desigualdad del ingreso se redujo en el periodo posterior al inicio de las reformas estructurales en 1991, continuando una tendencia que se observa desde 1971.
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Projects
News
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GRADE frente al COVID-19, Media GRADE, Comment
Miguel Jaramillo in El Comercio: Young people face informality and unemployment in the labor market
November 22, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The probability that a young person reachs a formal job is only 15%, which means that more than 80% of young people have an informal job.” Regarding the recent figures published by the National Institute of Statistics and Information (INEI) for the national urban area, Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke with El Comercio about the […]
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Media GRADE, Interview, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo: “In 2022 we would only see figures similar to the pre-COVID-19 stage, in terms of per capita income, or total income”
November 6, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“In 2022 we would only see figures similar to the pre-COVID-19 stage, in terms of per capita income, or total income. People will look for employment and if they cannot find it, employment will be created due to the flexibility of the sector. informal”. Our researcher Miguel Jaramillo spoke with the Lima Chamber of Commerce […]
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Young, rural and low-income women lost more their jobs during the pandemic
October 21, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
“The research calculated that 34% of female heads of households lost their jobs compared to 28% of their male counterparts, as this problem is much more profound in Peru, El Salvador, Honduras and Bolivia. More than half of the women female heads of households who are in charge of children under 6 have seen their […]
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Media GRADE, Comment, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in RPP Noticias: impact of the pandemic on employment
October 20, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“If you look at the evolution of employment in Metropolitan Lima, you see that informal employment is growing faster than formal employment. Informal employment, particularly self-employment, fell a lot with restrictions on mobility, but now it is growing very fast, because the independent worker has no social protection mechanism”. Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke […]
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Media GRADE, Opinion Article, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Labor market in pandemic, when the procession goes inside (from home), by Hugo Ñopo
October 11, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The component of informality that has increased the most is that of unpaid family workers. These are workers who, although from their condition they reduce the unemployment rate, they increase the informality rate. […] This is a subtle form of job insecurity, inside the home “. Read the new op-ed by Hugo Ñopo, GRADE’s senior researcher, […]
Events
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Miguel Jaramillo comentará el Informe Latinoamericano sobre Pobreza y Desigualdad 2013: Empleo de calidad y territorio, elaborado por Rimisp
11/06/2014 6:00 pm Sede del IEP Employment, productivity and innovation
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IV Conferencia de Economía Laboral: Miguel Jaramillo presentará estudio sobre el impacto de la licencia municipal en el desempeño de las microempresas en el Cercado de Lima
14/11/2013 4:00 pm Campus de la PUCP Employment, productivity and innovation
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USAID, junto a GRADE y Sector 3 SVG, lanzará el programa Mujeres Empresarias Liderando el Desarrollo (MELD)
10/05/2013 Country Club del Perú Employment, productivity and innovation
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Juana Kuramoto se reunirá con Ministerio de Educación Superior, Ciencia y Tecnología de República Domicana
06/10/2010 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Néstor Valdivia participará como expositor en taller internacional sobre mercado laboral
22/07/2010 Universidad Catòlica Sede Sapientiae (Esquina Constelaciones y Sol de Oro S/N, Lima) Employment, productivity and innovation
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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
