Opinion Article
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The Peruvian labor market in 2024: no place for young people, by Miguel Jaramillo
“It seems incredible how little attention the issue of young people receives, when its possible consequences can already be glimpsed: those who can leave the country: those who cannot, turn to the ‘easy’ money of crime”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the decay of formal youth employment in Peru. Read the full article in […]
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Multidimensional poverty: more important than the label is the content, by Javier Herrera and Javier Escobal
“The indicator that Midis would adopt combines only indicators that can be collected in the same survey, ignoring key elements like those related to malnutrition and anemia, indicators of quality of education and quality of access to public services, as well as indicators linked to violence and citizen security”. Javier Herrera, Visiting Professor at PUCP, and Javier […]
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Escobal and Herrera: Decree that Goverment wants to aprove puts statistical system under threat, why?
“By transferring INEI’s own functions to Midis, the Supreme Decree proposed by the Government is a threat to the credibility of non-monetary poverty indicators”. Javier Escobal, Senior Researcher at GRADE, and Javier Herrera, Visiting Professor at PUCP, both members of the Consultative Commission on Poverty Measurment. write about the implications of a proposed Supreme Decree that questions the […]
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Off days: Second jobs and informality in Peru, by Miguel Jaramillo
“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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The urgency of critical pedagogies to transform reality, by Maria Fernanda Rodriguez
“It is in the incorporation of reality into school knowledge where the potential for the transformation of reality itself is found”. Our Adjunct Researcher María Fernanda Rodríguez collects the findings of the JustEd Educational Justice project to discuss the concept of shallow pedagogies as a form of epistemic injustice in Peru. Read the article in […]
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Goodbye demographic bonus: the sudden aging of the Peruvian labor market, by Miguel Jaramillo
“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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Regional Heterogeneities in Labor Markets: A World to Explore, by Miguel Jaramillo
“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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The labor market in 2023, on a downward path, by Miguel Jaramillo
“At the end of the third quarter, according to the Permanent National Employment Survey, the labor force was stagnant, while inactivity had increased considerably, particularly in rural areas, where it increased by 20%.” Our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo analyzes the labor market in 2023 and shares his expectations for this new year. Read his full […]
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Decapitalization of Peruvian small-scale farming, by Eduardo Zegarra
“The overall picture is that of a small-scale farming with declining trends in critical assets (value of livestock stock), but especially in access to fundamental services, with declining access to titling, training, credit and technical assistance, which do not reach more than 10% of farmers nationwide.” In his new article for Noticias SER, our Senior […]
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Urban extractivism in Peru, by Manuel Glave
“Extractivism as a way of operating, as a way of extracting income, as a way of investing without taking into consideration the impacts generated by a large-scale investment, also reaches the big cities”. Taking the case of the Santa Rosa expressway in Callao, our senior researcher Manuel Glave reflects on urban extractivism in the country. […]
