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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COVID-19 and external shock. Economic impacts and policy options
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
Latin America is currently suffering from two independent but related shocks: the impact of COVID-19 and the shock of commodity prices. Peru, we argue, is a case in which the strongest impact comes from the pandemic. Peru was the first country in Latin America to react and implement sanitary and economic measures against the coronavirus. […]
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COVID-19 y shock externo. Impactos económicos y opciones de política en el Perú
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
América Latina sufre en este momento dos shocks, independientes, pero relacionados: el impacto del COVID-19 y el shock de precios de materias primas. El Perú, argumentamos, es un caso en el que el impacto más fuerte proviene de la epidemia. El Perú fue el primer caso de América Latina que reaccionó frente al coronavirus implementado […]
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Covid-19 y el shock externo: Impactos económicos y opciones de política en el Perú
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
Latinoamérica sufre al momento dos shocks, independientes pero relacionados, el impacto del Covid-19 y el shock de precios de materias primas. Perú es un caso en el que el impacto más fuerte proviene de la epidemia. Perú fue el primer país de América Latina en reaccionar con medidas sanitarias y económicas frente al coronavirus. El […]
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Contratos laborales en el Perú: dinámica y determinantes
2019 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
Beyond the commonly explored formality / informality binomial, this study helps to understand the duality of the formal labor market in Peru, determined by the type of contract used. It is found that 70% of the formal work initiated between 2012 and 2016 involved a temporary contract; 19%, one for an indeterminate period; and the […]
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Interpersonal comparisons and risk attitudes: An artefactual field experiment
2019 Miguel Jaramillo, Kristian López
Researchers study the impact of interpersonal comparisons on risk preferences in an artefactual field experiment. In their experiment, each decision maker (DM) is randomly paired with someone else in her neighborhood and makes a series of decisions that allows us to measure her risk attitudes under one of three conditions: In treatment 1, the DM’s […]
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El comercio de la cascarilla en el norte peruano-sur ecuatoriano
El norte en la historia regional, siglos XVIII-XIX1997 Miguel Jaramillo
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Peruvian Microfinance’s Caja Municipal Model
2013 Miguel Jaramillo
This Brief tells the story of the Caja Municipales system, focusing on the Caja Trujillo example to offer lessons learned for other regions.
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Guide to microfinance in Latin America
2013 Miguel Jaramillo
The Guide concludes with lessons that may be relevant for other contexts, as well as highlighting key publications and organisations related to microfinance in the region.
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Latin America’s Institutional and Regulatory Innovations for Microfinance Growth
2013 Miguel Jaramillo
This Brief provides an overview to the Latin American experience in regulating MFIs, covering the history of microfinance regulation in the region and the positive effects it has had on the sector’s current performance.
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Expanding microfinance in Latin America’s rural areas
2013 Miguel Jaramillo
This brief begins by discussing microfinance’s impacts in rural areas, presenting evidence on rural poverty as well as on microfinance’s positive effects on consumption and investment in education.
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El impacto del programa Juntos sobre la nutrición temprana
2013 Miguel Jaramillo, Alan Sanchez
A&P basado en los hallazgos más destacados del estudio de Miguel Jaramillo y Alan Sánchez, publicado en el DI 61 de GRADE y en la Revista Estudios Económicos 23 del BCR, "Impacto del programa Juntos sobre nutrición temprana"
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Projects
- Annual monitoring of informal economy in PeruApril 2012 - December 2012
- Mechanisms for inclusion of the informal sector to the Social Security Network in the Dominican RepublicNovember 2011 - March 2012
- Incidence of fiscal policy in urban and rural areas of PeruNovember 2011 - February 2012
- Effect of the participative Budget on the quality of public services: the case of water supply and roads in Peru.April 2011 - September 2012
- Formulation of a National Program for Climate Change ManagementApril 2011 - October 2011
- Salaries in the public sectorApril 2011 - July 2011
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin AmericaMarch 2011 - June 2013
- Start-up workshop of the Project “Governance Variances: effective delivery of Public Service”March 2011 - March 2011
- Coordination of the cultural heritage promotion and protection panel – INCNovember 2010 - March 2011
- Labor component of ‘facilitating businesses’October 2010 - October 2010
Media
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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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#8M La Mirada: Women workers, in the crisis and after, by Miguel Jaramillo
March 19, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
“Women have more self-employment and less salaried work, figure less among business employers and more among unpaid family workers.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, writes about the impact of the pandemic and the policies implemented in that context on the participation of women workers in economic activity. Read the full op-ed in El Comercio […]
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El mercado laboral del 2022: persisten los déficits estructurales
January 8, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Formal employment grew in all age groups, but particularly among the youngest, and at all educational levels, although more so among people with completed secondary school and higher education, where the bulk of the labor force is concentrated. It also grew more among men than women”. Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, writes in El […]
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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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The half that is still far away, by Miguel Jaramillo
November 23, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“As long as half of our population does not come close to reaching their productive potential, talk of development will continue to be a quimera”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes in Jugo de Caigua about the gaps between men and women in the labor market.
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Towards a more functional labor market, by Paola del Carpio and Miguel Jaramillo
September 26, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Although our norms point to salaried relationships indefinitely, what we have is a labor market with predominantly informal relationships, which affect more than 9 million Peruvians. In addition, within formality, short-term relationships predominate. Informality is a determining problem to grow with resilience”. Read the recent op-ed by Paola del Carpio (REDES) and Miguel Jaramillo (GRADE) vía […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Recovery of production and informalization of employment, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 19, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The heterogeneous responses to the ‘shock’ that the labor market has received have revealed a clear and growing trend towards informalization at the same time as a relative decline in wage relationships”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the heterogeneous recovery of the labor market after the impact of the pandemic on the Peruvian […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Yanapay is a palliative, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 13, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“You have to understand that programs like the Yanapay voucher are a palliative to a situation of scarce adequate employment opportunities, in no case are they a solution”. Read our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo‘s op-ed on the new government subsidy that began to be paid yesterday. Via La República.
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Why have we had such poor health results in the face of COVID-19 ?, by Miguel Jaramillo and Kristian López
June 6, 2021 Health and nutrition
“The most lethal error of the first months of the pandemic was one made up of economics and epidemiology: the poor determination of the social value of the massification of diagnostic tests and contact tracing.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, and Kristian López, director of LEEPS Laboratory, characterize the poor performance of the COVID ー […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Were we condemned to the pandemic debacle?, by Miguel Jaramillo and Kristian Lopez Vargas
May 2, 2021 Health and nutrition
Was Peru condemned to have so many deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic? How do we compare to other countries? How much of this debacle is explained by the strategy followed, and how much by our social indicators and the dire situation of our health system? Read the new op-ed for El Comercio by Miguel Jaramillo, GRADE’s […]
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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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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 […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo and other experts suggested measures to encourage formal hiring in firms. Article from El Comercio
September 30, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Employment subsidies should target the most vulnerable groups and also training.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, was one of the experts consulted by El Comercio to suggest ways to promote the hiring of formal workers among firms.
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in NPR: economic impact of the pandemic in Peru
September 8, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
According to Miguel Jaramillo, although parts of the economy are expected to rebound quickly, he is concerned about “the long-term consequences of the loss of human capital — a generation that is going to have a very hard time finding a job.” Our senior researcher talked with National Public Radio NPR about the economic impact […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion in Al Jazeera. Peru economy: COVID-19 puts millions of people out of work
August 22, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“It is the worst recession since the 19th century. The economy shut down completely. In 12 out of 24 regions, there was not a single case of COVID-19. Instead of isolating, the quarantine was also imposed on them, revealing the lack of understanding of the effects of this measure. […] The long-term consequences are enormous: […]
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Miguel Jaramillo in Gestión: “The 2001 labor reform leads to very negative effects on workers”
December 11, 2017 Employment, productivity and innovation
Gestión highlights the findings from the study by Miguel Jaramillo, Julio Almonacid and Luciana de la Flor, “The desprotective effects of employment protection”, which addresses the impact of the ruling issued by the Constitutional Court in 2001 on decisions of the type of contract used in the Peruvian labor market and the workers’ well-being. According to Jaramillo: “In the […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: It’s High Time for Good Governance
February 3, 2017
Global Development Network talked with our Executive Director, Miguel Jaramillo, about the validity of good governance in the development policy discussion: “We should not underestimate the importance of good governance. We can develop sophisticated and rigorous policy designs, but in the end, whether they are effective or not, whether they reach their goals or not, […]
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Empleo: El problema es la (baja) libertad para contratar
June 4, 2016 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Las madres con más educación aprovechan mejor aporte de Juntos
February 28, 2013 Health and nutrition
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Opinan Gerardo Damonte y Pablo Secada, El por qué de los conflictos sociales mineros
December 3, 2011 Employment, productivity and innovation
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El ministro de Trabajo dice que último aumento de la RMV no afectó a mypes
May 12, 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