Miguel Jaramillo Baanante
Senior Researcher
PhD in History - University of California
mjaramillo@grade.org.pe
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.
He has taught classes in economics at the Pontifical Catholic University and at the Pacific University. He has served as Advisor to Vice Ministers and Ministers in the fields of labor, social promotion and industry, having been Vice Minister of Social Promotion as well as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Ministry of Labor and Social Promotion.
Miguel has conducted research projects and consultancies for the International Labor Office, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the Ministry of Labor and Social Promotion, the Andean Development Corporation, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Ministry of Education, and the United Nations Development Program, to name but a few. He was Project Director and Senior Researcher at the APOYO Institute, an Executive Board member of the National Industrial Work Training Service (SENATI) between 1997 and 2000, a member of the Non-permanent Specialized Committee (CENPES) for Development and Productive Employment of the Organization of American States (OAS) and Founding Director of the Executive Board of the National Fund for Professional Training and Employment Promotion (FONDOEMPLEO), and a member of the Poverty and Inequality Research Network (NIP) where he also held a seat on the Executive Board between 2009 and 2011.
He is currently a member of the National Labor Council and Vicepresident of the Peruvian Economic Association..
Publications
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Políticas para combatir la pandemia de COVID-19
2021 Miguel Jaramillo, Kristian López
This paper addresses the particular circumstances of the policies used in the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis is made of the implementation of an appropriate epidemiological surveillance policy, with adequate diagnostic testing; contact tracing; and the use of effective isolation protocols. This same document proposes five areas for improvement and changes in the […]
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Policies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Miguel Jaramillo, kristian López Vargas
An analysis of the policies taken in Peru to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The dynamics of the Peruvian labor market: job creation and destruction and destruction of jobs and worker flows
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
Peruvian labor analysis has focused mainly on its static dimension. Thus, the focus has been on indicators such as the number of jobs generated; unemployment, occupation or participation rates; job allocation by sector or formality, of unemployment, occupation or participation; the allocation of work according to sectors or formality condition. These indicators provide a view […]
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Journaleconomíaunam
The impact of Covid-19 on the Peruvian economy
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
Potential impacts on labor incomes of Peruvian homes are analyzed. Although it is still uncertain the magnitude and duration of the economic shock those homes deal with, our approach focus attention on this research question: how prepared are the Peruvian homes for shocks as the one they are dealing with these days? What impacts are […]
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Impactos de la epidemia del coronavirus en el trabajo de las mujeres en el Perú
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
The study aimed to analyze the potential effects of the crisis on the employment and labor income of women in Peru. To achieve this, the research team did a comparative analysis of the labor insertion of women in contrast to men, exploring their strengths and weaknesses in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic situation. The […]
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El seguro escolar gratuito y el seguro materno infantil: análisis de su incidencia e impacto sobre el acceso a los servicios de salud y sobre la equidad en el acceso
2004 Miguel Jaramillo, Sandro Parodi
Estudio que intenta establecer si el Seguro Escolar Gratuito y el Seguro Materno Infantil aportaron a disminuir la brecha de acceso a los servicios de salud, redistribuyendo hacia los más pobres y mejorando la equidad.
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Enfoques educativos para niños y niñas trabajadores: estudio de caso de dos experiencias peruanas
2003 Miguel Jaramillo, José Carlos Chávez
En el Mimeo se busca comparar la gestión y resultados educativos de escuelas incluidas en el Programa DINALEA en Lima Metropolitana con aquella promovida por la organización Manthoc en Lima Metropolitana.
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El potencial de generación de empleo de la agricultura peruana
1999 Miguel Jaramillo
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Información en el mercado laboral: teoría y políticas
1998 Miguel Jaramillo, Gustavo Yamada
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Journal Revista de Estudios Económicos
Impacto del programa Juntos sobre nutrición temprana
2012 Miguel Jaramillo, Alan Sanchez
An extensive literature suggests that investments in early stages of the life cycle have long-term implications on accumulated human capital, which in turn has effects on the performance of individuals in the labour market. This paper explores the impact of the conditional cash transfer programme Juntos on the nutritional status of children under 5 years […]
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JournalJournal of Development Effectiveness
Evaluating interventions to reduce maternal mortality: evidence from Peru’s PARSalud programme
2009 Miguel Jaramillo, Juan Jose Diaz
This paper evaluates the impact of an intervention oriented to reduce maternal mortality in Peru. The paper takes advantage of both spatial and temporal variation in the implementation of the programme to identify its effects. Results suggest a positive impact of the training provided by the programme on the number of deliveries, deliveries using oxytocin, […]
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JournalEmpirica
Severance payment programs in Latin America
2005 Miguel Jaramillo
Latin America stands out among different regions in the world for her high employment termination costs. To this contribute both a high level of severance payments and the existence of overlapping benefits. The effectiveness of these protective measures, however, is limited by the size of the informal sector, which, in turn, may be related to […]
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JournalPunto de equilibrio
La información en el mercado laboral y el rol del Estado
1998 Miguel Jaramillo
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Perú: instituciones y desarrollo: avances y agenda de investigación
Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú2007 Manuel Glave, Miguel Jaramillo
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La investigación sobre el mercado laboral peruano: instituciones, capacitación y grupos desfavorecidos
Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú2007 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo, Juan Jose Diaz
The aim of the paper is to focus on some of the issues central to current debates on labour policies, in which GRADE has been most interested and involved. Specifically, there are three areas on which they want to discuss the state of the art of research, raise some debates and establish their relevance for […]
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Gobiernos locales, instituciones para la acción colectiva y desempeño de los servicios agrícolas públicos en el Perú
Perú, el problema agrario en debate: Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria (11º: 2006 Ago.16-19: Trujillo, Perú)2006 Miguel Jaramillo
Using the conceptual approach of the New Institutional Economics, this paper shows that the characteristics of collective action at the level of district municipalities have an impact on the provision of public services for agriculture. Although the supply of these services faces a variety of problems, the pressure of organised producers, the possibility of having […]
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Governability and economic perfomance in 1990s Peru
Political crises, social conflict and economic development: the political economy of the Andean region2005 Miguel Jaramillo, Jaime Saavedra
Together, the chapters highlight the detrimental effects of political instability and social conflict on economic growth and stability, as well as the feedback effects from poor economic performance on political instability and institutional fragility. The country studies warn that narrow economic reforms that do not pay adequate attention to politics, institutions and social structures are […]
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El impacto de la apertura al comercio internacional sobre la economía regional del extremo norte peruano, 1780-1877
Estado y mercado en la historia del Perú2002 Miguel Jaramillo
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Labour market information programmes
2013 Miguel 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
2013 Miguel 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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¿Tiene el presupuesto participativo algún impacto en la calidad de los servicios públicos? El caso del sector del agua y saneamiento
2013 Miguel Jaramillo, Lorena Alcazar
Contributions to the debate on the effect of citizen participation in budgetary decisions on the quality of public service through the analysis of the link between the municipal participatory budget (PP) and indicators of coverage and quality of water and sanitation service in Peru.
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From supply- to demand-led: labour training in Latin America
2013 Miguel Jaramillo
Over the past two decades, most Latin American countries began to see the need to reform their labour training systems. Up until this time, traditional training in Latin America had been supply-driven, with large-sized public sector institutions providing training based on what they perceived was needed within a state-led industrial development framework. Graduates of these […]
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Impacto de la licencia municipal en el desempeño de las microempresas en el Cercado de Lima
2013 Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo
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Projects
- GDN Annual Conference 2016 ‘Education for Development: Quality and Inclusion for Changing Global Human Capital Needs'February 2016
- Informalidad entre las pequeñas y micro empresasJanuary 2016
- Efectos de la caída de la fecundidad sobre la estructura de los hogares y la participación laboral femeninaJanuary 2016
- The political economy of land inequality in Latin America: the case of PeruAugust 2015
- Evaluación de la implementación del proceso de evaluación de las intervenciones públicas a través del instrumento EDEP en el marco del Presupuesto por ResultadosOctober 2014
- The future of impact evaluationOctober 2014
- Strengthening of evaluation on impact of policies and programs in the regionMay 2013 - November 2014
- Impact evaluation of business initiatives on the base of the social pyramidApril 2013 - October 2013
- Analysis of incidence of potential fiscal reformsFebruary 2013 - December 2013
- Evaluation of the design and execution of public budgets (EDEPP) – Public Teaching CareerJanuary 2013 - May 2013
Media
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Off days: Second jobs and informality in Peru, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 2, 2024 Employment, productivity and innovation
“From the perspective of our regulation, the high rate of second jobs is paradoxical, given the preference for the full-time contract over indefinite time, which leads our jurisconsultants to consider fixed-term labor contracts as “atypical”, when in reality it is the most frequent form of contracting”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about second jobs […]
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Goodbye demographic bonus: the sudden aging of the Peruvian labor market, by Miguel Jaramillo
June 17, 2024 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The size of the drop in labor supply is similar to that of the drop in youth employment. Thus, the propensity to hire young people has not changed, but the supply of young people in the labor market has fallen. The causes of this lie in the conjuncture, not in some structural factor.” Our senior […]
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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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Miguel Jaramillo discusses on the regulation that allows the entry of retired interim teachers into the teaching profession
April 10, 2024 Education and learning
For Miguel Jaramillo, the regulation that allows the entry of interim teachers retired from the teaching service would be unconstitutional because it does not respect the concept of not submitting spending initiatives. The opinion of our senior researcher was reported by El Comercio.
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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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Labour market in 2022: following the same path, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 26, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The number of people in informal employment continues breaking historical records for the country, having reached 9.77 million in the second quarter of the year. On the other hand, the number of formal workers, 4.03 million, remains lower than any point in the last 8 years”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the […]
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Labor informality aggravates social gaps in Peru, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 11, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The gaps between formal and informal workers are the main factor behind youth labor inequality. Young people who work in the informal sector earn on average 40% less than those who have a formal job. […] The evidence suggests that it makes sense to invest in improving the first labor experiences of young people”. Miguel Jaramillo, […]
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The improbable transition to formality, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 8, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Two traits are key to characterizing workers who transition from informality to formality: education and age. Greater education increases the probability of entering salaried formality from all labor segments, and more pronounced for the increase in education. high school to high school.” Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, shares recent evidence on mobility between the […]
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Labor market and poverty, by Miguel Jaramillo Baanante
June 12, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The number of people with a formal job was the lowest in almost a decade, 3.78 million people. The combination of low growth in formal employment, growing informality and meager recovery of income in the informal sector condemns us to greater poverty”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, analyzes the panorama of the labor market and poverty […]
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Peruvian labor market: less productive, less equitable and more precarious, by Miguel Jaramillo
April 30, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“We have a less productive, more inequitable labor market –with a greater gap between formal and informal– and more precarious. Today this market has less access to social benefits and the protection of the law.” In his new op-ed for Forbes Peru, our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo reviews how Peru’s response to the pandemic and current labor […]
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Miguel Jaramillo reflects on the relevance of Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin’s work for Peru
October 10, 2023
“There are far fewer women in the sciences than men and far more women in the humanities and pedagogy. We have already gotten more women through college, but there is still the issue of how careers are chosen.” Our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo and other specialists comment on why the work of Claudia Goldin, Harvard […]
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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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Miguel Jaramillo’s commentary on poverty reduction in the Inter-American Dialogue’s daily Latin America Advisor
June 23, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Going back to a path of poverty reduction requires a more promising business environment and a modicum of political stability”. Read the full commentary by our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo in the Inter-American Dialogue’s daily Latin America Advisor.
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RPP: Miguel Jaramillo comments on informal employment in Peru
December 26, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
According to the latest INEI report for 2022, there were 432,000 more jobs in Peru than in 2019. However, out of every 10 workers, only 2 are formal. For our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo, formal employment slowed down because there was no growth in private investment due to economic uncertainty. Read his opinion in this […]
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Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion in RPP Noticias on employment recovery
November 16, 2022
“Adequate employment is 14% below the pre-pandemic level, informal employment is already above pre-pandemic levels. Formal employment is at the level it was eight years ago”. RPP Noticias gathers the opinion of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo on the recovery of employment in the country.
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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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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in Canal N: sectors that suffer the most from the economic crisis due to the pandemic
May 13, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
“There are two groups that appear to be less likely to receive government aid. On the one hand, the poor are not identifiable, given the problems of the patterns with which they identify beneficiary households. On the other hand, the emerging middle class , who is not far from the poverty line, but who due […]
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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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Miguel Jaramillo addresses the state of labor informality in Peru
April 30, 2018 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The probability that a young person has a formal contract for an indefinite period of time is 2%. This is a serious problem. The most pertinent training for a young person is the one the firm gives him, but that occurrence has practically been cut. ” Our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, spoke with RPP Noticias […]
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Miguel Jaramillo gives his thoughts about the unemployment rate during the first quarter of 2018 in Metropolitan Lima
April 16, 2018 Employment, productivity and innovation
Between January and March 2018, the unemployment rate in Metropolitan Lima reached 8.1%, the highest level since the same period in 2012, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). According to Miguel Jaramillo, in an interview with RPP Noticias, the underlying factor is the weakness of the economy, which translates into a lower capacity […]
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Sueldo mínimo subirá si hay más productividad de los trabajadores
February 24, 2014 Employment, productivity and innovation
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El MinEdu participó en la 7ma reunión anual de la Red de Evaluación de Impacto (IEN) de la Asociación de Economía de América Latina y El Caribe (LACEA)
November 7, 2013 Education and learning
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Nuevos creadores, nuevas ideas
May 9, 2013 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Se estancan los sueldos de los profesionales
August 16, 2012 Employment, productivity and innovation
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El empleo en mypes cae, pero crece en grandes empresas
May 16, 2012 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Presentations
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¿Tiene el Presupuesto Participativo efecto en la calidad de los servicios públicos? El caso del sector de agua y saneamiento en el Peru
Lima-Perú, 15 June, 2017
Presentación del libro "Mejorando el acceso y la calidad de los servicios públicos en América Latina: gobernar y servir”
Selected Publications
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Contratos laborales en el Perú: dinámica y determinantes
2019 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
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Los efectos desprotectores de la protección del empleo. El impacto de la reforma del contrato laboral de 2001
2019 Miguel Jaramillo, Julio Almonacid, Luciana de la Flor
