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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¿Algo más que capacitación empresarial para el empoderamiento de mujeres microempresarias? Evidencia experimental de corto y mediano plazo en el Perú
2014 Martin Valdivia
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Los sectores no primarios y el mercado interno, 1930-1980
Compendio de historia económica: entre la gran depresión y el reformismo militarMiguel Jaramillo, Rosa Huamán
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Leve mejoría en el cumplimiento, pero limitado por la alta informalidad
Incumplimiento con el salario mínimo en América Latina: el peso de los factores económicos e institucionales2014 Juan Jose Diaz
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Formalización empresarial y laboral
Hacia una desarrollo inclusivo: el caso del Perú2014 Juan Jose Diaz
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JournalEstudios Económicos
Productividad sectorial en el Perú: un análisis a nivel de firmas
2014 Nikita Céspedes, Maria E. Aquije, Alan Sanchez, Rafael Vera-Tudela
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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¿Crisis real o crisis de expectativas?: el empleo en el Perú antes y después de las reformas estructurales
1998
Los mecanismos de ajuste del mercado de trabajo entre 1986 y 1997. Luego de un estancamiento del empleo entre 1988 y 1992, a partir de 1993, el empleo empezó a crecer junto con el nivel de actividad económica.
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Inversión en la calidad de la educación pública en Perú y su efecto sobre la fuerza de trabajo y pobreza
1997
Al hacer que el sistema educativo sea más eficiente, se podrían reducir los índices de repitencia, aumentando por lo tanto el nivel de calificación e ingresos de la fuerza laboral menos capacitada.
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Labor mobility from academe to commerce
1997, Maximo Torero, ,
Following a breakthrough discovery, scientific knowledge with natural excludability may be best transferred to industry by the labor mobility of top scientists from universities and research institutes to firms.
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Liberalización comercial e industria manufacturera en el Perú
1997
Uno de los principales temores sobre la apertura del comercio exterior es que genere una pérdida masiva de empleos y una virtual desaparición de la industria competitiva con las importaciones.
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Los científicos sociales y su inserción en la estructura ocupacional: el caso de los graduados de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
1997,
Las principales características de la inserción de los científicos sociales en la estructura ocupacional de la sociedad peruana mediante una clasificación ocupacional en categorías genéricas y específicas.
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Projects
News
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
The other victims: Covid-19 expone la desigualdad, por Lorena Alcázar vía Ojo Público
April 21, 2020 Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Poverty and equality
More than a month after the quarantine started, the situation is uncertain and worrying for thousands of families. The impact of measures to tackle the pandemic is not the same for everyone. Women have a greater presence in the sectors hardest hit by the crisis: commerce (26% versus 13% of men) and services (44% versus […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo: “In March and April, 16% to 20% of formal employment would be lost by COVID-19”
April 7, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“In March and April 16% to 20% of formal employment would be lost by COVIDー19.” According to Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, this figure would correspond only to normal job rotation. The impact of the pandemic could increase the level if layoffs are considered. In addition, he believes that the horizon to recover activity […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo on Canal N: withdrawals of AFP’s funds to face coronavirus impact in Peru
April 1, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke with journalist Mávila Huertas of Canal N about the Executive’s resolution that allows affiliates of the AFP (Pension Funds Administrators) that did not contribute six months ago to withdraw until S / 2000, as part of the economic plan to face the coronavirus impact.
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El Comercio highlights research findings by Hugo Ñopo and Ana Paula Franco on the situation of young people in Peru
January 16, 2020 Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
“Younger people take longer to complete their studies and enter the labor market; or they are in the NEET (Not in Education, Employement or Training) segment”. El Comercio highlights the research findings of Hugo Ñopo and Ana Paula Franco, “Ser joven en el Perú: educación y trabajo” (Being young in Peru: education and work), published […]
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Synergies between Education and Employment: who is being left behind and what can be done about it?
October 9, 2019 Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
Research on the effects of access to education and on employment conditions is abundant. However, the effects of basic education of quality on labour opportunities remain an elusive black box in many countries of the Global South. Particularly, in regard to the disadvantaged groups. As part of the UN Global Goals Week 2019, Southern Voice, […]
Events
- 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