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 […]
Publications
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Menos desiguales: la distribución del ingreso luego de las reformas estructurales
2011 Miguel Jaramillo, Jaime Saavedra
Tendencias de la desigualdad en la distribución de los ingresos durante el periodo posterior a la reforma estructural en el Perú durante los años 1997-2006 y sus vínculos con el mercado y las políticas públicas.
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JournalReview of Economics and Statistics
Teaching entrepreneurship: impact of business training on microfinance clients and institutions
2011 Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia
Using a randomized control trial, we measure the marginal impact of adding business training to a Peruvian group lending program for fem
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Designing an Effective CCT
2011 Miguel Jaramillo
This brief analyses the most important CCT design elements from the Latin American experience: the target population, incentives and conditionalities, and entry and exit rules to help other countries as they make design decisions to adapt CCTs to their own contexts.
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CCT Programmes: An Overview of the Latin American Experience
2011 Gerardo Damonte, Manuel Glave
This guide provides an overview to CCT programmes in Latin America, including their history, objectives and use, evidence of their impact, and finally, the main lessons coming out of Latin America that can be useful for policymakers considering implementing CCTs in their own countries.
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Teachers’ Salaries in Latin America: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
2011 Alejandra Mizala, Hugo Ñopo
The paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, attributed to observable socio-demographic and job characteristics, are assessed using a matching methodology (Ñopo, 2008). Teachers’ underpayment is found to be stronger than what has been previously reported […]
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Projects
News
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Lima and the water scarcity risk for private sector, by Eduardo Zegarra
July 5, 2016 Employment, productivity and innovation, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
“Dado el enorme peso de Lima en el PBI nacional (cerca del 50%), las cifras indican que una grave sequía afectando a Lima puede afectar directamente y en forma dramática al 25% del producto nacional, además de impactar potencialmente en más de 1 millón de empleos.” Lea el artículo de nuestro investigador Eduardo Zegarra en […]
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Empleo: El problema es la (baja) libertad para contratar
June 4, 2016 Employment, productivity and innovation
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GRADE forma parte de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos (LASA)
May 12, 2016 Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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Solo el 11% de trabajadores peruanos paga Impuesto a la Renta, con opinión de Miguel Jaramillo
May 11, 2016 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Columna de opinión de Carolina Trivelli cita video de Hugo Ñopo sobre equidad de género y mercados de trabajo
May 9, 2016 Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
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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