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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Evolution of Teachers’ Salaries in Latin America at the Turn of the 20th Century: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
2012 Alejandra Mizala, Hugo Ñopo
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper reports the evolution, between circa 1997 and circa 2007, of teachers´ salaries vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations for thirteen Latin-American countries. After controlling […]
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Learning from CCT evaluations
2012 Miguel Jaramillo
This brief reviews evaluation objectives, key steps to consider in designing and implementing a rigorous CCT evaluation, and describes how evaluations have been used in the region.
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Implementing CCTs: Lessons from Latin America
2012 Miguel Jaramillo
This brief presents four main steps in implementing a successful CCT programme, and in each, draws on the Latin American experience to highlight key issues policymakers should consider when creating an implementation strategy in other contexts.
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Improving Health and Education Through CCTs
2012 Miguel Jaramillo
This brief describes how Latin American countries have used CCTs to improve health and education, the results achieved, and lessons learned for improving health and education in other settings.
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JournalInternational Journal of Educational Development
The changing role of international cooperation in developing countries (as they develop): A case study of skills development policies in Peru.
2012 Miguel Jaramillo
A focus on the changes in the relationship between international cooperation and local actors in the skills development field in Peru as the country strengthened its financial position in the last two decades allows us to examine the role of the economic factor in these changes.
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Projects
News
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Why is there an “epidemic” of temporary contracts in Peru?
December 11, 2017 Employment, productivity and innovation
The Peruvian Institute of Economics, via El Comercio, highlights the findings of the study by Miguel Jaramillo, Julio Almonacid and Luciana De La Flor, “The deprotecting effects of employment protection: the impact of the 2001 labor reform”. The stury shows that by 2015, the ruling of the Constitutional Court of 2001 would have cost the creation […]
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University of Lima and GRADE held the fourth annual congress of the Peruvian Economic Association APE 2017
August 29, 2017 Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, 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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Carolina Trivelli recommends GRADE’s 35th Anniversary research reviews
July 17, 2017 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
Carolina Trivelli recommends our 35th Anniversary book, “Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú (Research for Development in Peru)“. In her op-ed published in Perú 21, two research reviews stand out: “Sanchez and Rodriguez discuss the impacts of Juntos, answering several of the demands that demand for more evaluation, and they make clear for what this intervention serves and where there are […]
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A radiography of informality. El Comercio highlighted Miguel Jaramillo’s study on the demand for formality among microfirms
July 3, 2017 Employment, productivity and innovation
The Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE) published an article on the evidence around informality. For this, gathers our Executive Director Miguel Jaramillo’s findings on the demand for formality among microfirms in Downtown Lima, Is there demand for formality among informal firms? Evidence from microfirms in downtown Lima (GRADE 2013): “The study reports that only one out of […]
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Jaime de Althaus highlights Miguel Jaramillo’s study of 2004 on the regulation of labor market in Peru
June 30, 2017 Employment, productivity and innovation
In his op-ed titled “Overregulation is not ideological”, journalist Jaime de Althaus highlights one of Miguel Jaramillo’s findings of 2004 on the regulation of labor market in Peru: “There is the myth that in the 90’s labor was desregulated and therefore precarious and informalized. But the truth is that non-wage labor costs (“benefits”) went from 48% […]
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