Employment, Productivity and Innovation
The main objective of various projects carried out at GRADE in this area has been to assess the economic impacts of labor legislation and its effects on the hiring of temporary workers, on employment rotation and mobility, or non-salary labor costs and on the demand for formal employment. Additional issues include the insertion of youth in the labor market, self-employment rates, the role of micro and small-scale enterprises in employment generation, and policies for driving innovation in the country.
Senior Researchers
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Juan José Díaz Noziglia
PhD en Economics - University of Maryland
Juan José Díaz has a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His interests include the labor economy and evaluating social, educational, health and development programs.
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Miguel Jaramillo Baanante
PhD en History - University of California
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. […]
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Máximo Torero Cullen (de licencia)
PhD en Economics - University of California, Los Angeles
Maximo received a PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Economics and held a postdoctoral fellow position at the UCLA Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR). Currently, he is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Prior to joining FAO, he was the World Bank Group Executive Director for […]
External Affiliated Researchers
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Sonia Laszlo
PhD en - University of Toronto
Sonia Laszlo is Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development. Her main research areas cover many aspects of applied microeconomic analysis in economic development: rural development, access to markets, and the relationship between income, health and education in economic development. In addition to using traditional analytic tools […]
Visiting Researchers
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Alessandro Goglio
PhD en - Graduate Institute of International Studies
Alessandro is a senior international economist with extensive experience advising governments on long-term reforms, policies, and programs, particularly in the areas of social and labor market reforms. He currently teaches Public Economics at LIUC Università Cattaneo (Castellanza, Italy), School of Economics, following thirty years at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. […]
Publications
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JournalEnvironment and Development Economics
Extractive industries and local development in the Peruvian Highlands
2015 Elisa Ticci, Javier Escobal
During the last 20 years, the mining sector in Peru has been experiencing sustained growth. Using census, administrative, nationally and regionally representative data we compare districts in the Peruvian Highlands with a recent mining development with suitable counterfactuals. We find that the new mining activities attract migration inflows, and have some positive effects over educational […]
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Productividad y tratados de libre comercio a nivel de empresas en Perú
2014 Nikita Céspedes, Maria E. Aquije, Alan Sanchez, Rafael Vera-Tudela
We study the empirical relationship between free trade agreement and productivity in Peru by using a pseudo experimental model. Two productivity indicators, which are measured at the firm level are considered: labor productivity and total factor productivity. We find that firms involved in international free trade either as exporters and / or importers have systematically […]
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¿Algo más que capacitación empresarial para el empoderamiento de mujeres microempresarias? Evidencia experimental de corto y mediano plazo en el Perú
2014 Martin Valdivia
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Los sectores no primarios y el mercado interno, 1930-1980
Compendio de historia económica: entre la gran depresión y el reformismo militar2014 Miguel Jaramillo, Rosa Huamán
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Leve mejoría en el cumplimiento, pero limitado por la alta informalidad
Incumplimiento con el salario mínimo en América Latina: el peso de los factores económicos e institucionales2014 Juan Jose Diaz
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Los activos de los pobres en el Perú
1998Javier Escobal, Maximo Torero,
Tanto la distribución del ingreso como los niveles de pobreza han registrado importantes modificaciones a lo largo de las últimas cuatro décadas en el Perú. .
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¿Crisis real o crisis de expectativas?: el empleo en el Perú antes y después de las reformas estructurales
1998
Los mecanismos de ajuste del mercado de trabajo entre 1986 y 1997. Luego de un estancamiento del empleo entre 1988 y 1992, a partir de 1993, el empleo empezó a crecer junto con el nivel de actividad económica.
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Inversión en la calidad de la educación pública en Perú y su efecto sobre la fuerza de trabajo y pobreza
1997
Al hacer que el sistema educativo sea más eficiente, se podrían reducir los índices de repitencia, aumentando por lo tanto el nivel de calificación e ingresos de la fuerza laboral menos capacitada.
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Labor mobility from academe to commerce
1997, Maximo Torero, ,
Following a breakthrough discovery, scientific knowledge with natural excludability may be best transferred to industry by the labor mobility of top scientists from universities and research institutes to firms.
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Liberalización comercial e industria manufacturera en el Perú
1997
Uno de los principales temores sobre la apertura del comercio exterior es que genere una pérdida masiva de empleos y una virtual desaparición de la industria competitiva con las importaciones.
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Projects
News
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo in La República’s Sigrid.pe: factors that explain why the quarantine in Peru would not have worked
May 27, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, spoke with Sigrid Bazán, from La República, about the factors that explain why the quarantine in Peru would not have worked. On the issue of informality, he said: “Little more than 6 million independent workers, almost 5 million people bring to their home at the end of the month an amount […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
A talk between Hugo Ñopo and Elmer Huerta M.D. in RPP Noticias: Social determinants of health
May 22, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
“Four out of ten Peruvians work independently. Of those four, three work in a very precarious way due to what they manage to carry out at the end of the month at their household is below the minimum vital wage of 900 soles” . These are some of the figures that Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, shared with […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo via BBC Mundo: factors that explain why confinement measures do not prevent Peru from being the second country in Latin America with the most cases of COVID-19
May 22, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Hugo Ñopo is one of the experts who discusses five factors that explain why confinement measures do not prevent Peru from being the second country in Latin America with the most cases of the coronavirus. One of the problems is informality, which prevented the social distance from being maximized: “We are talking about households where monetary income […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Coronavirus: An Opportunity to Beat Informality? Interview with Hugo Ñopo
May 17, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
Can Peru aim at development as an informal country? Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, shares his thoughts: “No, and this opportunity of the pandemic has been showing us. It is proving very difficult to reach these households whose employment is basically informal with effective help. It would do us a better job as a country , […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in Canal N: sectors that suffer the most from the economic crisis due to the pandemic
May 13, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
“There are two groups that appear to be less likely to receive government aid. On the one hand, the poor are not identifiable, given the problems of the patterns with which they identify beneficiary households. On the other hand, the emerging middle class , who is not far from the poverty line, but who due […]
Events
- Education and Learning
- Employment, Productivity and Innovation
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Ethnicity, Gender and Citizenship
- Methodologies for Research and Evaluation of Policy and Programmes
- Poverty and Equity
- Natural Resources, Extractive Industries and Social Conflict
- State Reform and Public Institutions
- Health and Nutrition
- Urbanization and Sustainable Cities
