Media GRADE
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Miguel Jaramillo: Employment growth would be expected from 2% to 2.5%
“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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Property tax: innovate for better governing, by Ricardo Fort and Alvaro Espinoza
Our researchers Ricardo Fort and Álvaro Espinoza shared a concrete and low cost proposal in order to improve the municipal governance and to increase the property tax collection using modern technology. Read the full text in Gestión Newspaper.
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Preliminary findings of Young Marriage and Parenthood Study (YMAPS) in Peru
Vanessa Rojas, Adjunct Researcher at GRADE and Coordinator of the Qualitative Component of Young Lives in Peru, shared in Radio Nacional the preliminary findings of the Young Marriage and Parenthood (YMAPS) qualitative studies, show the perceptions of young women and men about their experiences in cohabitation, pregnancy, maternity/paternity to an early age. Qualitative evidence of […]
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Alfredo Thorne, ex Minister of Economy and Finance, highlights Miguel Jaramillo’s findings on short-term contracts
What is expected from an economy in transformation? The research findings of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo on short-term contracts are highlighted by Alfredo Thorne, ex Minister of Economy and Finance. The main conclusion of the study is that there is a great labor mobility within formal employment: workers move between jobs, allowing them to migrate to more productive […]
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Santiago Cueto talks about GRADE’s work in PUCP’s Master in Social Management radio
“In GRADE we produce research studies that reach relevant conclusions for the development and review of public politics, and for decision-making that contributes to the wellbeing of the Peruvian population”. Listen to the full interview with Santiago Cueto, Executive Director and Senior Researcher at GRADE, in Space for Management, radio of the Master in Social […]
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María Balarin writes about international accreditation and the quality of higher education
Can international accreditation guarantee the quality of higher education? Our senior researcher, María Balarin, writes in El Comercio’s supplement on universities and institutes about the key role of this mechanism on the sidelines of a public debate on what quality means and a proper regulation.
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Executive Chairman at Apoyo Consultoría hightlights Miguel Jaramillo’s study on the impact of the 2001 labor contract reform
The research findings of our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, together with Julio Almonacid and Luciana de la Flor, on the impact of the 2001 labor contract reform implemented by the Constitutional Court are highlighted by Gianfranco Castagnola, Executive Chairman at Apoyo Consultoría, en El Comercio. The main conclusion of the study is that the reform is responsible for a […]
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Is the solution at home?, by Hugo Ñopo
“The excess of female responsibilities in homes has huge impacts on the lower possibility of professional development for women”, says Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, in an article published in G de Gestión gathering proposals to set game rules that promote gender equity in the business community.
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Miguel Jaramillo gives his thoughts on youth unemployment in an IPE’s reportage
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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Rethinking pensions: How to leave behind ‘Bismarck’?
To protect workers and not jobs. This is the proposal that Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, shared at the III Forum Dialogues for Development. Based on the work that Santiago Levy developed in Mexico, the idea is that people contribute to their pension fund through their purchase, so that part of the VAT they pay should be allocated […]
