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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Chapter in BookHistoria económica del norte peruano: señoríos, haciendas y minas en el espacio regional
La artículación de un espacio económico: formación de la economía regional de Piura
2017 Miguel Jaramillo
Because of its proximity to the Strait of Panama, and its relatively easy connection with the ports on the coast, northern Peru developed a peculiar economy within the country as a whole. Its characteristics include an active commercial agriculture and livestock sector, a fluid high jungle-highland-coastal communication, favored by a less rugged Andean mountain range […]
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Chapter in BookInvestigación para el desarrollo en el Perú: once balances
Instituciones, normas sociales y comportamiento
2016 Miguel Jaramillo
Are institutions having the effect that we intended? In recent years, the economics literature has revealed the role that incentives and non-material motivations play in affecting the behavior of economic agents. While some actions are performed due to their intrinsic value, some are carried out because of the information they convey about the actor, and […]
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JournalLaborem
La perspectiva económica de la regulación laboral y la legislación laboral peruana
2016 Miguel Jaramillo
In this presentation I would like to convey to you the view of labor market regulation from the perspective of economics. In other words, how economists see labor law regulations, their motivations and objectives. From this reflection and the discussion of international evidence he presented some reflections on the regulation of the Peruvian labor market.
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Effects of fertility on women’s working status
2016 Miguel Jaramillo
As in other developing countries, Peru’s demographic transition is well underway. Concurrently, women’s labor market participation and employment rates have substantially increased. In this paper the authors estimate the causal effect that the reduction in fertility rates has on women’s employment using instrumental variables already tested in developed countries—twins in the first birth and the […]
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Impact evaluation and policy decisions: where are we? A Latin American think tank perspective
2015 Miguel Jaramillo, Lorena Alcazar
This paper by Jaramillo and Alcázar addresses questions that go to the heart of impact evaluation research: how much has the field achieved towards its goal of informing public policies, and which factors may have been furthering or hindering this goal? Looking primarily at its own experience, a Peruvian think tank, the Group for the […]
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Designing an Effective CCT
2011 Miguel Jaramillo
This brief analyses the most important CCT design elements from the Latin American experience: the target population, incentives and conditionalities, and entry and exit rules to help other countries as they make design decisions to adapt CCTs to their own contexts.
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Minería hoy / Hacia una reforma integral de la capacitación
2007 Juana Kuramoto, Miguel Jaramillo
Minería hoy: la bonanza que no hay que desperdiciar / Hacia una reforma integral de la capacitación.
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Políticas para mejorar el desempeño del mercado laboral / Las concesiones de infraestructura en el sector portuario
2005 Miguel Jaramillo, Lorena Alcazar
Policies to improve labour market performance by Miguel Jaramillo. Infrastructure concessions in the port sector: an assessment of the Matarani experience by Lorena Alcázar.
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Projects
- Evaluación del Impacto del Programa PARSALUD para reducir la mortalidad maternal sobre el acceso a servicios de salud materna y parto institucionalMay 2007
- Diseño de un Sistema de Post Monitoreo de proyectos de FONCODESMay 2007
- 2006 Fondoempleo, profile evaluationAugust 2006
- Las Políticas de Desarrollo de Habilidades en el Perú: el rol de los actores nacionales e internacionalesJuly 2006
- Beneficios de Projoven según niveles de pobrezaMay 2006
- Developing the Poverty PageJanuary 2006
- Las Políticas para el Financiamiento de las Pymes en el PerúDecember 2005
- Servicio de Consultoría Estudio sobre oferta y demanda en la educación en Áreas RuralesDecember 2005
- Jóvenes Creadores de Negocios de Puno IISeptember 2005
- Estudio sobre los Recursos Humanos en salud en el Perú: gestión, distribución, regulación, formación y condiciones laboralesAugust 2005
Media
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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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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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Media GRADE, Opinion Article, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Anatomy of an economic debacle: the Peruvian labor market in 2020, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 6, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The current results are a consequence of both the epidemic and the public policy responses to contain it. They were not unpredictable, as we showed in a recent study. Unfortunately, the new information shows our estimates as conservative. Indeed, according to the latest National Household Survey, the labor market has suffered the most brutal blow […]
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Media GRADE, Opinion Article, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Ciencia y políticas frente a la epidemia, por Miguel Jaramillo
April 5, 2020 Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Health and nutrition
“La lección para el mediano plazo es muy clara: necesitamos invertir en un sistema de salud con capacidad de respuesta ante epidemias”. Miguel Jaramillo, investigador principal de GRADE, evalúa las políticas del Perú para enfrentar el coronavirus, comparándolas con algunas de las medidas de países como Corea y Chile. Lee sus conclusiones en su nuevo artículo […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: Employment growth would be expected from 2% to 2.5%
February 18, 2019 Employment, productivity and innovation
“It is reasonable to expect an employment growth rate between 2% and 2.5% for this year. How much of that will be formal employment? I do not think there will be much change in the structure, unless it really advances rapidly in fighting some of the issues that generate additional costs in the labor market”. Miguel […]
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Labor policy: we must look at the evidence, by Miguel Jaramillo
December 19, 2017 Employment, productivity and innovation
“We need a system that provides flexibility, decriminalizes dismissal and protects workers, not jobs”. Miguel Jaramillo, Executive Director at GRADE, shares his thoughts in El Comercio on effects of the contract reform promoted by the TC (Peruvian Constitutional Court) over the decisions regarding the type of contract used in the labor market and its consequences […]
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Labor stability: good intentions and perverse results, by Miguel Jaramillo
December 12, 2017 Employment, productivity and innovation
Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts in Gestión about the effects of the labor reform promoted by the Constitutional Court in 2001 on the type of contract decisions and the well-being of workers: “This reform led to the replacement of just over 900,000 permanent jobs. Due to permanent contracts offer better salaries than temporary contracts, the loss […]
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Miguel Jaramillo gives his thoughts on youth unemployment in an IPE’s reportage
September 17, 2018 Employment, productivity and innovation
Under what conditions are young workers in Peru? The reportage of the Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE) published by El Comercio includes the opinion of Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, on the conditions of formal hiring: “the probability that a worker of minor age will get an indefinite job is just 2%, while for workers between 56 and 65 years it is 22%”.
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Miguel Jaramillo: Constitutional Court reduced the probability of having an indefinite employment contract by 57%
June 14, 2018 Employment, productivity and innovation
The magazine SEMANAeconómica highlights the study of our executive director, Miguel Jaramillo, who finds a relationship between a judgment issued by the Constitutional Court that allows reinstatement in a job and the reduction in the probability that a worker has a contract for an indefinite period and the fall of unionization. Miguel discussed his findings […]
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Metropolitan Lima does not see employment growth since May 2017
April 9, 2018 Employment, productivity and innovation
Formal employment in urban areas of Peru fell 0.5% in February, accumulating eight consecutive months of decline, according to the Ministry of Labor and Promotion of Employment. In addition, there have been 14 months in which formal employment in Metropolitan Lima observed a fall. According to our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, “although economic activity is not […]
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The Peruvian laboral clutter
April 8, 2018 Employment, productivity and innovation
The Compendium of Standards on Labor Legislation of the Ministry of Labor, updated to August 2017, has 136 standards compiled in almost 1,400 pages and more than 2,000 articles. In an article by El Comercio on the complexity of labor legislation. For our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, it is not reasonable to expect a small […]
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Minimum wage increase would arrive without economic justification and would affect formal employment
March 12, 2018 Employment, productivity and innovation
Within a few days for the decision that the Ministry of Labor will take on the minimum wage increase, Semana Económica reviews its justification at a time of the labor market of greater informality and rise of underemployment. Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE and one of the authors of the study The deprotecting effects of employment protection, […]
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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
