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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JournalJournal of Development Economics
Business training plus for female entrepreneurship? Short and medium-term experimental evidence from Peru
2015 Martin Valdivia
With millions of women around the developing world thrown into self-employment but with low productivity, increasing the profitability of their businesses is highly relevant for poverty reduction and gender equity. This study evaluates the impacts of a BDS program serving female microentrepreneurs in Lima using an experimental design, that included two treatment groups: One received […]
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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
The year 1930 marks a turning point in the trajectory of the Peruvian economy. The purpose of this chapter is to document the role played by the development of the domestic market within the national economic dynamics and its interrelation with the export sector. The analysis starts with a general characterization of the period and […]
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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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Los científicos sociales y su inserción en la estructura ocupacional: el caso de los graduados de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
1997,
Las principales características de la inserción de los científicos sociales en la estructura ocupacional de la sociedad peruana mediante una clasificación ocupacional en categorías genéricas y específicas.
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Decisiones laborales en las economías rurales del Perú
1997Martin Valdivia, ,
Este documento presenta una caracterización de la participación de los individuos en los mercados rurales de trabajo en el Perú.
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Quienes ganan y quienes pierden con una reforma estructural: cambios en la dispersión de ingresos según educación, experiencia y género en el Perú urbano
1997
Este trabajo apunta a determinar cuáles fueron los grupos perjudicados y cuáles los favorecidos por el ajuste estructural en términos de la evolución de los ingresos reales y los ingresos relativos.
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Algunos criterios para la evaluación de la educación superior y la investigación
1993,
Los principales alcances de la evaluación académica, que en los últimos años ha alcanzado un significativo desarrollo en varios países occidentales y que está asentándose paulatinamente en Latinoamérica.
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Projects
News
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Employment: the three dogmas of the old formality, by Hugo Ñopo
July 26, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“In Peru, with limited access to capital and poorly developed financial markets, work is even more important. Labor incomes cover three-quarters of the budgets of Peruvian households. Therefore, there is no better welfare policy than promoting a better job market”. Read the new op-ed by Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, in El Comercio.
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GRADE frente al COVID-19, Media GRADE, Comment
Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion on figures of formal and informal employment
June 29, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
Regarding the recent figures for formal and informal employment, Miguel Jaramillo stated that a change in the trajectory of formal employment was expected for June. However, he warned that in the coming months there would be a strong increase in informality, these last agents go out to carry out their activities to survive. The opinion […]
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Media GRADE, Interview, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo in RPP Noticias: How to get a job in times of COVID-19?
June 19, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The most important determinant of long-term productivity is human capital. This measure is not just the number of years people went to study, but the skills they developed in the school world. There in lies the key to the long-term employability. […] We must pay attention to a very low-cost or zero-cost public offer of […]
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GRADE frente al COVID-19, Media GRADE, Interview
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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Media GRADE, Interview, 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 […]
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
