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

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 […]

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External Affiliated Researchers

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 […]

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Visiting Researchers

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. […]

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Working paper

Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

2017 Marjorie Chinen, Thomas de Hoop, Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin, Josh Sennett

This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low- and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty-five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi-experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta-synthesis includes findings from […]
Chapter in Book

Understanding the Role of the Couple in Key Decisions and Actions of the Female Entrepreneur in Peru
Measuring women’s economic empowerment: Lessons from South America

2017 Martin Valdivia

For this study, the author analyzed two variants of the question about the extent to which women evidence agency: women’s participation in making key business decisions and men’s participation in carrying out household chores in urban Peru. The objective of the analysis was to understand in a better way the relationship between women entrepreneurs and their […]
Los efectos desprotectores de la protección del empleo: el impacto de la reforma del contrato laboral del 2001

2017 Miguel Jaramillo, Julio Almonacid, Luciana de la Flor

Four out of every five labor relations in the formal sector of the Peruvian economy are covered by temporary contracts. This proportion is grossly higher than that of any OECD country and also considerably higher than that of any of the countries in our Latin American region. The purpose of this study is to elucidate […]
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). […]
Working paper

El género y las trayectorias hacia la adultez en el Perú: educación, trabajo y maternidad/paternidad

2017 Vanessa Rojas, Gabriela Guerrero, Jimena Vargas

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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