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 […]
Publications
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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
En este documento examinamos cómo el género afecta las trayectorias educativas, laborales y de maternidad/ paternidad de una muestra de jóvenes que crecen en situación de pobreza en el Perú. Reportamos los resultados y las trayectorias de 26 miembros de la cohorte mayor que participaron en la investigación cualitativa del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio […]
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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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Matching as a tool to decompose wage gaps
2004,
In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages.
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Ethnicity and earnings in urban Peru
2004, Maximo Torero,
The relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. Our 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.
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Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima
2004, Maximo Torero,
In the paper, the authors adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: salespersons, secretaries and (accounting and administrative) assistants. The adapted pseudo-audit study methodology allows them to reduce the room for existence of statistical discrimination. […]
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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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Projects
News
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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 […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
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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Interview, Media GRADE, 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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Comment, Media GRADE, 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 […]
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) Rural development and agriculture, 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, 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