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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Productividad sectorial en el Perú: un análisis a nivel de firmas
Productividad en el Perú: medición, determinantes e implicancias2016 Nikita Céspedes, Maria E. Aquije, Alan Sanchez, Rafael Vera-Tudela
This paper estimates the production function at the firm level of the Peruvian economy, which allows us to characterise the productivity of the firm through its total factor productivity and its labour productivity. The data correspond to all formal firms that reported data between 2002 and 2011. This information allows us to correct for the […]
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Los retornos de las habilidades cognitivas y socioemocionales en el Perú
Productividad en el Perú: medición, determinantes e implicancias2016 Juan Jose Diaz, Omar Arias, David Vera Tudela
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Impact Evaluation of the Job Youth Training Program Projoven
2016 Juan Jose Diaz, David Rosas-Shady
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Natural resources, redistribution and human capital formation
2016 Jorge Aguero, Carlos Felipe Balcázar, Stanislado Maldonado, Hugo Ñopo
How do resource booms affect human capital accumulation? The authors exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodity boom across local governments in Peru to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation. The authors explore the effect of both mining production and tax revenues on test scores, finding a substantial and […]
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Crecimiento y segmentación en el Perú
2015 Miguel Jaramillo, Bárbara Sparrow
Contributions for the design of labor policies through the analysis of the impact of informality on the segmentation and quality indicators of employment during the last decade.
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La dinámica del mercado de trabajo en el Perú antes y después de las reformas estructurales
1999
Tendencias de la dinámica del mercado de trabajo peruano antes y tras el programa de estabilización económica que dio inicio al proceso de reformas estructurales en 1990.
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Mujer, empleo y pobreza: la experiencia reciente de los países andinos
1999, ,
La contribución del efecto empleo y efecto ingresos al crecimiento del ingreso familiar en los países andinos y la contribución relativa de la mujer a dicho crecimiento, especialmente en los hogares pobres.
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El turismo en el Perú: perspectivas de crecimiento y generación de empleo
1999,
El presente trabajo analiza el desempeño del sector turismo en el Perú en 1990-1998, con especial atención en su creciente importancia para la creación de nuevos empleos y la generación de divisas.
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¿Crisis real o crisis de expectativas? el empleo en el Perú antes y después de las reformas estructurales
1998
En esta investigación se analizan los mecanismos de ajuste del mercado de trabajo entre 1986 y 1997.
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Projects
News
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Comment, GRADE frente al COVID-19, Media GRADE
Miguel Jaramillo and other experts suggested measures to encourage formal hiring in firms. Article from El Comercio
September 30, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Employment subsidies should target the most vulnerable groups and also training.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, was one of the experts consulted by El Comercio to suggest ways to promote the hiring of formal workers among firms.
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Media GRADE, Comment, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo in CGTN: Peru struggles to overcome pandemic, restart economy
September 16, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, State reform and public institutions
According to Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, the current economy reopening strategies are not working. Why? “One important element here is the gap between the design and the implementation. We have great designs as bonuses, Reactiva Peru, incentives to families and to businesses, but the problem did not materialize in a timely way”, he […]
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Hugo Ñopo in La República: Why is the pandemic hitting the women’s economy more?
September 13, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
“There are signs of recovery in male employment, but not female. There are two great forces behind it. On the one hand, the sectors where women worked in a greater proportion are recovering slowly. On the other, greater domestic responsibilities limit the ability to reintegrate into work. Women’s “. Our senior researcher Hugo Ñopo explains why […]
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Media GRADE, Comment, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo in El Comercio: Employment expectations in Peru improve, but at a slow pace
September 9, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
Regarding a recent survey on the prospects for hiring firms, Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, believes that the big bet should go to link large firms with micro and small firms to promote formal versus informal hiring, which abound in the country. “For a long time we have lived the dream of entrepreneurship, of the micro-entrepreneur and […]
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Media GRADE, Comment, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in NPR: economic impact of the pandemic in Peru
September 8, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
According to Miguel Jaramillo, although parts of the economy are expected to rebound quickly, he is concerned about “the long-term consequences of the loss of human capital — a generation that is going to have a very hard time finding a job.” Our senior researcher talked with National Public Radio NPR about the economic impact […]
Events
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Presentación del Estudio “Pobreza e Impactos Heterogéneos de las Políticas Activas de Empleo Juvenil: El Caso de PROJOVEN en Perú”
27/08/2009 Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Employment, productivity and innovation, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
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Miguel Jaramillo co-organiza conferencia de la Red de Desigualdad y Pobreza
25/06/2009 → 26/06/2009 Universidad de Ginebra Employment, productivity and innovation
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Estudios de GRADE en reunión de LACEA-LAMES 2007
04/10/2007 → 06/10/2007 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Taller NIP – GRADE
22/11/2004 → 23/11/2004 Universidad del Pacífico (Av. Salaverry 2020, Jesús María) 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
