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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Nudging microentrepreneurs under fire: Experimental evidence from favelas in Rio de Janeiro
2023 Anna-Katharina Lenz, Martin Valdivia
Do behavioral biases and the distortions generated by the presence of organized crime limit microentrepreneurs’ adoption of growth-oriented business practices? We explore this question in a field experiment with informal microentrepreneurs in which we provide informational visits and text messages about the advantages and convenience of a formalization program. All microentrepreneurs operated in Complexo Maré, […]
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JournalInternational Labour Review
Revisiting the stepping-stone hypothesis: Transitions from temporary to permanent contracts in Peru
2023 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
This study seeks to gauge the extent to which temporary contracts function as stepping stones to permanent contracts and to distinguish intrafirm from interfirm contract conversions. Using 2012–2016 data from a Peruvian matched employer–employee database, the authors propose several measures of contract conversion and estimate duration models. Their findings show that only 7 per cent […]
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JournalThe Journal of Politics.
Do political preferences affect policy learning and uptake? Evidence from a field experiment with informal entrepreneurs
2023 Cesar Zucco, Anna-Katharina Lenz, Rafael Goldszmidt, Martin Valdivia
We examine whether political preferences affect uptake and learning about government programs in the context of Brazil’s Individual Microentrepreneur Program, which offers subsidized access to social security coverage and business-related incentives. We fielded a randomized intervention that provided one-on-one consultancy and assistance to informal entrepreneurs. Treatment increased formalization rates, but we found only weak evidence […]
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Promoviendo el empleo y la empleabilidad durante el COVID-19: evaluación de cuatro experiencias en América Latina
2023 Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo, Fernando Távara
The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures to control it had a strong impact on the Latin American labor market. As a result of this crisis, the region experienced a rapid decline in its employed population and a significant rise in unemployment, which hit women and youth the hardest. In this context, Latin American countries implemented […]
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Mejorando la empleabilidad de mujeres urbanas vulnerables en tiempos de pandemia en el Perú: evaluación experimental del componente de capacitación virtual en un programa de empleo temporal
2023 Lorena Alcazar, Shirley Huerta
This paper evaluates the impact of a training programme delivered randomly to beneficiaries of the temporary employment programme Trabaja Perú (TP). This experiment offers the opportunity to examine the impact of the intervention targeting vulnerable women in a particular context of high unemployment such as that generated by COVID-19. The study uses a mainly quantitative […]
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Pathways to Formalization: Going Beyond the Formality Dichotomy
2018
Too often, academics and policy makers interpret formality as a binary choice and formalization as an irreversible process. Yet, formalization has many facets and shades on the business and labor fronts, and firms may not be able or willing to formalize all at once. This paper explores the joint process of business and labor formalization, […]
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Pathways to formalization: going beyond the formality dichotomy
2018
Too often, academics and policy makers interpret formality as a binary choice and formalization as an irreversible process. Yet, formalization has many facets and shades on the business and labor fronts, and firms may not be able or willing to formalize all at once. This paper explores the joint process of business and labor formalization, […]
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No longer children: What do Young Lives children do when they grow up?
2018
No longer children: What do Young Lives children do when they grow up? is a Young Lives research report, synthesising research from the past two survey rounds (in 2013 and 2016) to reflect on how the experience of poverty early in life affects future opportunities, documenting children and young people’s trajectories from school into post-secondary […]
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Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
2018
This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low- and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty-five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi-experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta-synthesis includes findings from […]
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Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
2017
This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low- and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty-five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi-experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta-synthesis includes findings from […]
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The impact of Covid-19 on the Peruvian economy
2020
Potential impacts on labor incomes of Peruvian homes are analyzed. Although it is still uncertain the magnitude and duration of the economic shock those homes deal with, our approach focus attention on this research question: how prepared are the Peruvian homes for shocks as the one they are dealing with these days? What impacts are […]
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JournalJournal of International Development
Health impacts of a public-private partnership rural roads maintenance programme
2018
The authors provide evidence of health impacts of a public-private rural roads maintenance programme in Peru, which is characterized by a contracting mechanism that employs small local firms. Using a difference‐in‐differences approach, they find that improved roads connectivity leads to positive health externalities.
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JournalJournal on Education in Emergencies
Can Teacher Training Programs Influence Gender Norms? Mixed-Methods Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda
2017
This mixed-methods cluster-randomized controlled trial examines the impact of a teacher-training program that aimed to promote positive gender socialization in the conflict-affected region of Karamoja, Uganda. The theory of change suggests that the education system and teachers can play critical roles in promoting positive gender roles and gender equality, which has important implications for peacebuilding. […]
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Journal IZA Journal of Labor & Development
Psychosocial competencies and risky behaviours in Peru
2017
The authors use a unique longitudinal dataset from Peru to investigate the relationship between psychosocial competencies related to the concepts of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and aspirations, and a number of risky behaviours at a crucial transition period between adolescence and early adulthood. First of all, they document a high prevalence of risky behaviours with 1 out of […]
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JournalLaborem
La perspectiva económica de la regulación laboral y la legislación laboral peruana
2016Miguel Jaramillo,
In this presentation I would like to convey to you the view of labor market regulation from the perspective of economics. In other words, how economists see labor law regulations, their motivations and objectives. From this reflection and the discussion of international evidence he presented some reflections on the regulation of the Peruvian labor market.
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Productividad sectorial en el Perú: un análisis a nivel de firmas
Productividad en el Perú: medición, determinantes e implicancias2016Alan Sanchez,
This paper estimates the production function at the firm level of the Peruvian economy, which allows us to characterise the productivity of the firm through its total factor productivity and its labour productivity. The data correspond to all formal firms that reported data between 2002 and 2011. This information allows us to correct for the […]
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Los retornos de las habilidades cognitivas y socioemocionales en el Perú
Productividad en el Perú: medición, determinantes e implicancias2016Juan Jose Diaz, , ,
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El proceso de certificación del pisco peruano: una propuesta de medición de sus principales efectos
Midiendo el impacto de la infraestructura de la calidad en América Latina: experiencias, alcances y limitaciones2014Ricardo Fort,
The main objective of this publication is to contribute to raising awareness of the relevance of quality infrastructure in various aspects of the economy and society, and to strengthen the leading role it should play in public policies. It is also hoped that it will serve as a stimulus for new impact studies in Latin […]
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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 militar2014Miguel Jaramillo,
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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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 institucionales2014Juan Jose Diaz,
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El modelo de la caja municipal en Perú
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
One of the most successful and influential initiatives in the history of microfinance in Peru is the cajas municipales system. Of all the independent cajas that became successful, Caja Trujillo is a case in which they harmoniously combined business experimentation with effective regulation, generating a success story that illustrates the growth of microfinance.
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Expansión de las microfinanzas en zonas rurales de América Latina
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
The inclusion of rural populations in financial markets has long been a social objective of developing countries worldwide. Indeed, pioneering work in the field of microfinance initially focused on rural areas. This brief analyses the impacts of microfinance in rural areas through evidence on rural poverty, as well as the positive effects on consumption and […]
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Innovaciones institucionales y normativas para el desarrollo de las microfinanzas en América Latina
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
The current performance of the microfinance sector is related to the financial sector reforms in Latin American countries, which started in the late 1980s. Prior to these reforms, the development of microfinance was limited by the excessive regulation of the financial sector, which was mainly based on state involvement. The optimisation of the regulatory framework […]
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Innovaciones tecnológicas en las microfinanzas en América Latina
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
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Spotlight on publications: labour market policies in Latin America
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
The publications presented in this Spotlight represent some of the key resources dealing with issues related to labour market policies in Latin America. The selected publications focus on the following topics: Gender and Labour; Impact Evaluations; Labour Intermediation Services; Active and Passive Labour Market Policies and Programmes; and Labour Market Regulations and Development.
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Discrimination in Latin America : An Economic Perspective
2010,
The chapters presented in that volume adopt a variety of these methodological tools in order to explore the extent to which discrimination against women and demographic minorities is pervasive in Latin America. In chapter two, Castillo, Petrie, and Torero present a series of experiments to understand the nature of discrimination in urban Lima, Peru. They […]
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Más crecimiento, más equidad: Prioridades de desarrollo en Guatemala
2008,
La estructura y selección de temas de la presente publicación responde, en su mayor parte, a un diagnóstico de crecimiento para Guatemala realizado en 2007, donde se identificaron un conjunto de factores que afectan las posibilidades de desarrollo del país. A lo largo de las páginas hay un reconocimiento tácito de que, si bien todos […]
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Outsiders?: The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
2008,
This report raises a number of fundamental questions about the multidimensional and interrelated nature of social exclusion and moves beyond the traditional emphasis on outcomes and groups to view exclusion as a process that results from societal traits that limit the functionings of the excluded. Using the tools of experimental economics, the report shows the […]
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Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú
2007Eduardo Zegarra, Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce, Juana Kuramoto, Manuel Glave, Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo, Juan Jose Diaz, Maximo Torero, Santiago Cueto, Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Martin Valdivia, Nestor Valdivia,
Este libro recoge las Mimeos presentadas en la conferencia Investigación, políticas y desarrollo, realidad en el marco del 25 aniversario del Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo.
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Cambios globales y el mercado laboral peruano: comercio, legislación, capital humano y empleo
2005Miguel Jaramillo,
This book contains the main contributions to the knowledge of the Peruvian labour market and the design of employment policies that were discussed at the First Conference on Labour Economics in Peru, held at the Universidad del Pacífico. It includes papers that, from the perspectives of economics and labour law, cover the areas of international […]
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Projects
- Youth and inequality in Peru: opportunities and barriersJanuary 2017
- Reviewing innovation agencies in Latin AmericaDecember 2016
- Preparing a guide document on Science, Technology & Innovation research for San Agustin National UniversityNovember 2016
- Science, Technology & Innovation: Review and AgendaOctober 2016
- Informalidad entre las pequeñas y micro empresasJanuary 2016
- Promoviendo el liderazgo de las mujeres en pequeñas empresasJune 2015
- Estudio de Benchmarking en Incubadora en BionegociosJune 2015
- Identificación de población objetivo del Programa Presupuestal Desarrollo Productivo EmpresasDecember 2014
- Evaluación de intervenciones que promueven el liderazgo de las mujeres en pequeñas empresasOctober 2014
- Ahorro Programado y el bienestar de los hogares pobres en República DominicanaSeptember 2014
News
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Miguel Jaramillo shares his opinion on the increase in public employment. Via Gestión.
October 29, 2024 Employment, productivity and innovation
According to Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, the increase of employment in the public sector “would be correlated to the progress of public investment, but he warned that as a trend ‘it is fatal’ because of its implications on public finances”. Read the full article in Gestión for subscribers here.
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Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts on the increase in formal employment. Via Gestión.
October 24, 2024 Employment, productivity and innovation
According to Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, the figures from the Central Reserve Bank “reinforce the idea that the public sector is gaining more weight in spending on salaries, which could have long-term consequences if the private sector does not retake the lead in job creation”. Read the full article in Gestión for subscribers […]
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Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts on proposals to reestablish compulsory military service
October 23, 2024 Employment, productivity and innovation
According to Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, bill No. 9166 would not contribute to the labor market nor is it positive for employment, because it would not fullfill its aim of providing training and development opportunities for young people who are neither studying nor working, since”evidence shows that the Army is very attractive to them”. Read the full article by El Comercio here. […]
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Off days: Second jobs and informality in Peru, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 2, 2024 Employment, productivity and innovation
“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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Goodbye demographic bonus: the sudden aging of the Peruvian labor market, by Miguel Jaramillo
June 17, 2024 Employment, productivity and innovation
“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 […]
Events
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Seminario internacional Inclusión laboral con enfoque de género en respuesta al COVID-19 en Latinoamérica
24/11/2022 9:00 am - 11:00 am Zoom y Facebook de GRADE Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
El Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) tiene el agrado de invitarle al seminario internacional Inclusión laboral con enfoque de género en respuesta al COVID-19 en Latinoamérica. El seminario virtual propone debatir en torno a intervenciones para promover el empleo en el contexto económico afectado por la pandemia, así como discutir propuestas y recomendaciones de […]
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CIES 2022: Miguel Jaramillo to discuss the keynote lecture by UN’s High-level Advisory Board member
04/11/2022 8:45 am Web del CIES Employment, productivity and innovation
The Consortium for Economic and Social Research organize the keynote lecture by UN High-level Advisory Board member, Jayati Ghosh, “Informal Employment and Gender in Post-Pandemic Developing Countries”, as part of the CIES 2022 Research Seminar. Miguel Jaramillo (GRADE) and Leda Pérez (UP) will be discussants. SIGN UP Admission is free prior registration here.
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Miguel Jaramillo joined an OIT webinar on labour transitions and income dynamics in Latin America
29/09/2022 → 30/09/2022 8:00 am Zoom de la OIT Employment, productivity and innovation
Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, and Daniela Campos, from University of Wisconsin, joined the webinar “Labour transitions and income dynamics in Latin America”, held by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The two-day event brought together academics, researchers and specialists to discuss these issues in the region. 17 articles were presented in 5 sessions where […]
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Manuel Glave discussed a research article on the unrest of the Mining Mita
23/09/2022 2:00 pm Zoom de la PUCP Employment, productivity and innovation
Our Senior Researcher Manuel Glave discussed the findings of the research article “The Legacy of the Spanish Conquista in the Andes: Mining Mita, Persistent Social Unrest, and Cultural Divergence”, by César Huaroto from the Department of Departamento de Economics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and Francisco Gallego. The article addresses the persistent effect […]
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GRADE on live, Webinar, Publication Presentation
GRADE 40 years | Book Launch “El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar”
01/09/2022 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Zoom de GRADE Urbanization and sustainable cities, 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 equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
El Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) organizes the launch of the book “El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar” (The Pending Peru: essays for a development with well-being), as part of the commemorative celebration for its forty years of institutional life. The book is a collection of essays that, from different conceptual and […]
- 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
