Opinion Article
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Is the increase in the minimum wage an impromptu decision? Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion
Is the increase in the minimum wage an impromptu decision? According to Miguel Jaramillo, principal investigator at GRADE, “it is very difficult to justify this type of measure in the current context of depressed formal employment and growing informal employment. The decision is opportunistic, not technical.” Read his full comment in La República.
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Let’s put informality in lockers, by Hugo Ñopo
“When we say that informality in the country reaches 72% of workers, we are adding everyone, putting very different realities in the same bag. One part of this informality is fought with inspection, another part (in fact, the vast majority), no. Making the distinctions is important for designing better policies.” Read the latest article by […]
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Minimum wage: an ineffective instrument to redistribute income, by Miguel Jaramillo
“As an instrument to redistribute income to the least favored, the Minimum Vital Remuneration is not a potentially effective policy.” In this article from the Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE), our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo shares evidence on the operation and effects of minimum wage policies in Peru.
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Being a Woman in Peru: Presentation and abstract, by Hugo Ñopo
“Inequality in access to resources generated by work is enormous: the salary mass generated by men doubles the salary mass generated by women, and this has changed very little in the last two decades.” Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, summarizes the chapters of his new book “Ser Mujer en el Perú” (written together with Josefina Miró Quesada) […]
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Hugo Ñopo in Americas Quaterly: Peru and the accession process to OECD
“Conceiving and implementing such an ambitious reform agenda not just as the policy of a given administration, but as a central policy of state, will be a challenge. But the need to protect the OECD process from changes in the political climate may also help strengthen it by establishing it as an accepted part of […]
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Towards a more functional labor market, by Paola del Carpio and Miguel Jaramillo
“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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Recovery of production and informalization of employment, by Miguel Jaramillo
“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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Gender equity at work: what works and what doesn’t, by Hugo Ñopo, Sofía Hidalgo and Jerson Veliz
What works and what doesn’t to advance gender equality at work? The new article by Hugo Ñopo, Sofía Hidalgo and Jerson Veliz for the blog Foco Economico recounts various initiatives, the effectiveness of which has been documented in the literature.
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Two issues that prevent more vaccinations, by Hugo Ñopo
In his new op-ed in Jugo de Caigua, our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo shares his thoughts on the relevance of understanding two structural problems of vaccine demand —reading comprehension and time availability— to help design better active strategies.
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Yanapay is a palliative, by Miguel Jaramillo
“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.
