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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Employment protection legislation and on-the-job training in an informal labor market: evidence from Peru
2022 Miguel Jaramillo, Bruno Escobar
Training and learning on the job are two critical channels for human capital accumulation during work years. Several studies in developed countries have found that fixed-term contract (FTC) workers receive less training sponsored by their employers than openended contract (OEC) workers do. In contrast, FTC workers participate more actively in informal learning during their job […]
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Innovación en el sector público
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Juana Kuramoto
Innovation processes in the public sector are essential to generate new and improved services or goods, but also to reform and make the delivery process of existing ones more efficient. To this end, the government must be clear about the delivery model for these public services or goods, as well as the distribution of competencies […]
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La protección social en el Perú: estado actual y cómo marchar hacia el acceso universal
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Miguel Jaramillo
This essay seeks to summarize the state of the art on social protection in Peru, and to suggest some concrete fields of action to advance in the design of a system that covers all citizens.
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Educación superior, políticas inclusivas y discriminación en el mercado laboral
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Jorge Aguero
This essay addresses the issue of productivity from the angle of human capital formation. This study summarizes the advances in access to education and shows the pending task in higher education, and then discusses the role of inclusive policies with the example of Beca 18 in the context of a labor market marked by racial […]
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El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar
2022 Maria Balarin, Santiago Cueto, Ricardo Fort
The essays that make up this book have been written to commemorate the first 40 years of GRADE’s institutional life, which coincides not only with the Bicentennial of Peru’s Independence, but also with the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its profound economic, social and political consequences. From different conceptual and methodological perspectives, […]
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El género y las trayectorias hacia la adultez en el Perú: educación, trabajo y maternidad/paternidad
2017
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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Social media instruments and the promotion of financial inclusion in peruvian rural areas
2017
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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Impact Evaluation of the Job Youth Training Program Projoven
2016Juan Jose Diaz, ,
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Natural resources, redistribution and human capital formation
2016
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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Productividad y tratados de libre comercio a nivel de empresas en Perú
2014Alan Sanchez,
We study the empirical relationship between free trade agreement and productivity in Peru by using a pseudo experimental model. Two productivity indicators, which are measured at the firm level are considered: labor productivity and total factor productivity. We find that firms involved in international free trade either as exporters and / or importers have systematically […]
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JournalWorld Development
Participatory democracy and effective policy: is there a link? Evidence from rural Peru
2015Miguel Jaramillo,
We examine the relationship between participatory democratic institutions and effective agricultural policy in rural Peruvian municipalities, using a unique quantitative dataset of 100 Peruvian municipalities at two points in time, allowing us to examine (a) bottom-up, grassroots participatory governance institutions, and (b) Peru’s top-down participatory budgeting reform implemented in all Peruvian sub-national governments in the […]
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JournalJournal of Development Economics
Business training plus for female entrepreneurship? Short and medium-term experimental evidence from Peru
2015Martin Valdivia,
With millions of women around the developing world thrown into self-employment but with low productivity, increasing the profitability of their businesses is highly relevant for poverty reduction and gender equity. This study evaluates the impacts of a BDS program serving female microentrepreneurs in Lima using an experimental design, that included two treatment groups: One received […]
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JournalEnvironment and Development Economics
Extractive industries and local development in the Peruvian Highlands
2015Javier Escobal,
During the last 20 years, the mining sector in Peru has been experiencing sustained growth. Using census, administrative, nationally and regionally representative data we compare districts in the Peruvian Highlands with a recent mining development with suitable counterfactuals. We find that the new mining activities attract migration inflows, and have some positive effects over educational […]
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JournalRevista de Estudios Económicos
Productividad sectorial en el Perú: un análisis a nivel de firmas
2014Alan Sanchez,
In this paper we estimate the production function by economic sectors in Peru, we also characterize the productivity of firms by using two indicators: the total factor productivity and the labour productivity. The data correspond to the total formal firms observed between 2002 and 2011, information that allows to correct the traditional econometric problems behind […]
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JournalEn breve
Medios de comunicación, contenidos y comportamiento: algunos énfasis sobre la inclusión financiera
2014, Martin Valdivia,
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Formalización empresarial y laboral
Hacia una desarrollo inclusivo: el caso del Perú2014Juan Jose Diaz,
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Evaluación de los programas de apoyo a las Pyme en Perú
Evaluación de impacto de los programas para pyme Latinoamerica y El Caribe2010Miguel Jaramillo, Juan Jose Diaz,
This report is the result of a research project that strictly evaluates the net impacts of participation in small and medium enterprise (SME) programmes in four Latin American countries: Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Peru. The objective of the research was to determine which programmes improve SME performance and to obtain information as to why some […]
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Prácticas exitosas de innovación empresarial y comportamiento tecnológico sectorial
Innovación empresarial y comportamiento tecnológico sectorial: experiencias exitosas y estudios de casos2010Juana Kuramoto,
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Descentralización de recursos humanos en educación: ¿mercado nacional o mercados regionales de docentes?
Conferencia de Economía Laboral: Tendencias del Empleo, Capital Humano, Informalidad y Rotación Laboral2008Miguel Jaramillo,
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Estructura ocupacional y formacion de clases sociales en el Perú: que nos dice la evidencia disponible sobre el Peru reciente
Clases sociales en el Perú: visiones y trayectoria2007Martín Benavides,
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Spotlight on organisations: labour market policies in Latin America
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
This spotlight highlights some of the key organisations working on labour market issues in Latin America, including labour policy in general, social protection, employment, youth employment, labour training, labour migration, and labour intermediation. The Spotlight has been divided between international organisations that address labour markets and other issues, and those organisations focusing solely on labour […]
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Labour market information programmes
2013Miguel Jaramillo,
Within the liberal economic model that spread across Latin America during the 1990s, free and open markets were considered the main mechanism for resource allocation. In this context, Latin American governments focused not on providing employment opportunities, but on supporting the workings of the labour market. One area where labour market failure had been identified […]
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Peru’s ProJoven Training Programme
2013Miguel Jaramillo,
ProJoven (Programa Nacional de Empleo Juvenil) is an archetypal demand-driven, private sector-engaged training programme of the 1990s that succeeded in reaching its target beneficiaries. Conceived as a social programme of the Ministry of Labour, ProJoven trained, in the short term, young people from households below the poverty line. Empirical evidence shows that the programme had […]
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Impacto de la licencia municipal en el desempeño de las microempresas en el Cercado de Lima
2013Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo,
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Peruvian Microfinance’s Caja Municipal Model
2013Miguel Jaramillo,
This Brief tells the story of the Caja Municipales system, focusing on the Caja Trujillo example to offer lessons learned for other regions.
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Jóvenes emprendedores: evaluación de programas de promoción
2003Miguel Jaramillo,
El limitado dinamismo del mercado laboral asalariado en el Perú no permite absorber la demanda de puestos de trabajo de los jóvenes y muchos optan por generar su propio empleo. ¿Hay maneras efectivas de apoyarlos?
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Reformas estructurales y bienestar: una mirada al Perú de los noventa
2001,
Se discute la experiencias de la última década y se da una mirada crítica a algunos aspectos de lo acontecido con las reformas económicas y sociales de primera generación durante los noventas.
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Estrategias y racionalidad de la pequeña empresa
2001, Maximo Torero, Nestor Valdivia, ,
Resultados del trabajo de investigadores de GRADE como parte del proyecto "Micro, Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas en el Perú: Análisis de los Sectores de Confecciones, Metalmecánica y Servicios Informáticos".
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Exclusión y oportunidad: jóvenes urbanos y su inserción en el mercado de trabajo y en el mercado de capacitación
2001,
Algunas de las características demográficas y socioeconómicas más importantes de jóvenes de ciudades en hogares pobres, su perfil educativo y de capacitación, y su inserción en el mercado de trabajo.
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Balance de la investigación económica en el Perú
2000Javier Escobal,
The specific objectives of this work are: a) to gather a significant part of the best research produced, especially in recent years; b) to take stock of the studies identified, arranging them by areas and topics and, as the case may be, establishing contributions and limitations; c) to formulate a sufficiently broad agenda within each […]
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Projects
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA)September 2014
- Spatial analysis of the adoption of agricultural technologies in Peru: a view from the 2012 Agricultural and Livestock CensusJuly 2014
- Impact evaluation of business initiatives on the base of the social pyramidApril 2013 - October 2013
- Evaluation of the design and execution of public budgets (EDEPP) – Public Teaching CareerJanuary 2013 - May 2013
- Promoviendo el liderazgo de las mujeres en pequeñas empresasNovember 2012
- Mini-novels, financial education and savings promotionJuly 2012 - April 2014
- Annual monitoring of informal economy in PeruApril 2012 - December 2012
- Research balance and priorities in public policies in Peru 2007-2011: science, technology and innovationJanuary 2012 - May 2012
- Systematization of experiences in the execution of the research projects of the Science and Technology Program of Peru – FINCyTJanuary 2012 - April 2012
- Support in designing the specialized survey on innovation in the manufacturing sectorNovember 2011 - May 2012
News
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Labour day: Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts on the state of the labour market in Peru
May 2, 2024 Employment, productivity and innovation
“I would not say that the employment has improved, but it has worsened in relation to pre-pandemic. Underemployment grew by more than 50%, the participation of young people in the labour market has fallen sharply and incomes have barely been able to keep up with inflation, thanks to the formal sector”. Our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo and other experts share […]
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Regional Heterogeneities in Labor Markets: A World to Explore, by Miguel Jaramillo
April 1, 2024 Employment, productivity and innovation
“It is not necessarily the largest cities where the highest activity rates are observed. In fact, Metropolitan Lima, by far the largest city in the country, is toward the middle of the distribution, with two-thirds of its working-age population active in the labor market.” Our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo writes about the importance of having […]
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The labor market in 2023, on a downward path, by Miguel Jaramillo
January 15, 2024 Employment, productivity and innovation
“At the end of the third quarter, according to the Permanent National Employment Survey, the labor force was stagnant, while inactivity had increased considerably, particularly in rural areas, where it increased by 20%.” Our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo analyzes the labor market in 2023 and shares his expectations for this new year. Read his full […]
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Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion on the OECD’s recommendations for Peru in labor matters
September 29, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Social security is only 9% of non-wage costs. The analysis is correct, but politically it is not very viable. Lately they are aiming for more vacations and higher minimum salaries”. Our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo gave his opinion on the proposals of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) for 2026 in labor matters. […]
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“Urgent: better opportunities for young people,” by Miguel Jaramillo
September 19, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Entering the labor market through precarious jobs often leads to equally precarious life and work trajectories.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, writes about the urgency of promoting better opportunities for young people and the challenges for policy design. Read his full article in El Comercio.
Events
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GRADE researchers will be speakers and discussants at the VII Annual Congress 2022 of the Peruvian Association of Economics (APE).
12/08/2022 → 13/08/2022 Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – Campus San Isidro, Lima, Av. General Salaverry 2255, San Isidro Employment, productivity and innovation
GRADE researchers will be speakers and discussants at the VII Annual Congress 2022 of the Peruvian Association of Economics (APE). The event, organized by the Faculty of Economics of the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, will take place on August 12 and 13, 2022. In this edition the theme is “Post-pandemic Economic and Social Challenges”. About […]
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Hugo Ñopo gave the conference Economic Perspectives to 2023 at the César Vallejo University Tarapoto
03/05/2022 7:00 pm Universidad César Vallejo Tarapoto Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
“What if a part of the consumption tax goes to pensions? We have to rethink a new social protection where labor rights are universalized and are no longer just rights of formal workers. The new vision of labor regulation says that what What needs to be protected is not necessarily jobs, but people”. Watch again […]
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Miguel Jaramillo and Hugo Ñopo joined an IPE event on the economic impact of the new labor code
28/04/2022 8:00 am - 9:00 am Facebook del IPE Employment, productivity and innovation
“One of the most worrying things is the new regulations on fixed-term contracts. We have about two and a half million people, about half of the formal salaried PEA, who have temporary contracts. […] What will happen to them the day after this rule is approved? Will they be hired in the black, will they […]
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Hugo Ñopo joined a Club de Madrid and Southern Voice work session on the way to the World Social Summit 2025
04/02/2022 8:00 am Zoom de Southern Voice Employment, productivity and innovation
Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, outlined today a number of social develoment and cooperation priorities emerging from the Global South in a working session co-organized by the Club de Madrid and Southern Voice, on the way to the World Social Summit 2025. Former Heads of State and government and representatives from civil society organizations […]
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Conference Economic Reactivation and Public Investment: Building Back Better
23/09/2021 9:00 am - 10:45 am Zoom de GRADE Employment, productivity and innovation
La pandemia del COVID-19 ha expuesto debilidades estructurales de la economía peruana. Entre ellas sobresalen un alto nivel de informalidad (tanto en el autoempleo como en el trabajo asalariado) y la ausencia de mecanismos de protección social universales. Así mismo, la tasas de inversion privadas, alrededor del 20% del PBI, son bajas, alrededor de la […]
- 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
