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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The dynamics of the Peruvian labor market: job creation and destruction and destruction of jobs and worker flows
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
Peruvian labor analysis has focused mainly on its static dimension. Thus, the focus has been on indicators such as the number of jobs generated; unemployment, occupation or participation rates; job allocation by sector or formality, of unemployment, occupation or participation; the allocation of work according to sectors or formality condition. These indicators provide a view […]
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The coronavirus pandemic and its challenges to women’s work in Latin America
2020 Diana Gutiérrez, Guillermina Martin, Hugo Ñopo
The coronavirus pandemic has spread throughout the world and Latin America has not been exempt from its health, economic and social impacts. The economic shutdown, as a result of a combination of stringent measures (self-quarantines, mandatory lockdowns, limited capacity in shops, factories and offices, border closures, etc.), is having a profound economic and social impact. […]
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El coronavirus y los retos para el trabajo de las mujeres en América Latina
2020 Diana Gutiérrez, Guillermina Martin, Hugo Ñopo
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sudden economic shutdown. How has this situation affected the work of women in Latin America? The answer to this question demands a policy focus on the differentiated impacts between women and men. With this, it is necessary to avoid generalized formulas that eventually deepen gender gaps. This document explores […]
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El Coronavirus y los retos para el trabajo de las mujeres en América Latina
2020 Diana Gutierrez, Guillermina Martin, Hugo Ñopo
The Coronavirus pandemic has spread throughout the world and Latin America has not escaped its health, economic and social impacts. The economic strike resulting from a combination of astringent measures (self-quarantines, mandatory quarantines, limited capacity of people in commercial premises, factories and offices, border closures, etc.), is generating profound economic and social impacts. In the […]
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Journaleconomíaunam
The impact of Covid-19 on the Peruvian economy
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
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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New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America
2009,
The paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country heterogeneity. The unexplained pay gap is higher among older, informal and self-employed workers and […]
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Gender and Racial Wage Gaps in Brazil 1996-2006: Evidence Using a Matching Comparisons Approach
2009
The authors explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition […]
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The Gender Wage Gap in Peru 1986-2000: Evidence from a Matching Comparisons Approach
2009,
Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), the paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru from 1986 to 2000. This methodology has two advantages. First, it recognizes that the supports of observable characteristics distributions differ substantially. Second, it provides deeper insights regarding the distribution of the unexplained gender differences in earnings. […]
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Business training for microfinance clients: how it matters and for whom?
2008Martin Valdivia, ,
We mesure the impact of a business training program for female microentrepreneur clients of a group banking program in Peru. Using the credit with education model, we assigned clients randomly to either treatment or control groups.
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Etnicidad y acumulación de capital humano en México Urbano
2008,
Se analiza la movilidad social y la acumulación de capital humano entre minorías étnicas en zonas urbanas de México, se exploran los cambios en el logro académico y la situación en el mercado laboral y se emplean datos de panel provenientes de la Encuesta sobre la Vida de la Familia Mexicana (MFxLS). Los resultados apuntan […]
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The Gender Wage Gap in Peru 1986-2000: Evidence from a Matching Comparisons Approach
2004,
Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), the author analyze the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru from 1986 to 2000. The advantage of such methodology is two-fold. First, it recognizes that the supports of observable characteristics distributions differ substantially. Second, it provides deeper insights regarding the distribution of the unexplained gender differences […]
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JournalBoletín Cinterfor: Boletín Técnico Interamericano de Formación Profesional
El Programa de Capacitación Laboral Juvenil (ProJoven)
2000,
El artículo que aquí se presenta originalmente formaba pate de la publicación "Exclusión y oportunidad. Jóvenes urbanos y su inserción en el mercado de trabajo y en el mercado de capacitación".
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JournalSocialismo y participación
El mercado laboral peruano: situación actual y opciones para los próximos años
2000,
En el documento se analiza la situación actual del mercado de trabajo peruano y se analizan detalladamente las diferentes propuestas existentes en torno al problema del empleo en el país.
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JournalDesarrollo productivo
El mercado de tierras en el Peru: análisis institucional y económico
1999Eduardo Zegarra,
En el primer volumen se analizan de manera sistemática algunos de los elementos conformantes del "contexto institucional" en que funciona el mercado de tierras en el Perú.
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JournalAmerican ethnologist
Alguito para ganar (a little something to earn): profits and losses in peasant economies
1999Manuel Glave, ,
We explore various ways in which small-scale peasants in the highlands of Peru conceptualize the everyday concept of profit in the contemporary context of neoliberalism.
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The determinants of labor allocation between farm and off-farm activities in rural Peru
International Symposium Proceedings, (15º: 1998 Nov. 29-Dec. 4: Pretoria, South Africa)1999Javier Escobal, Jorge Aguero,
This document shows that the importance for the Peruvian rural sector of activities that go beyond on/farm agricultural tasks has increased substantially, at least during the last decade.
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Los costos laborales en el Perú
Inseguridad laboral y competitividad: modalidades de contratación1999,
Estimación de los costos laborales con el concepto de costo laboral efectivo, que toma no solo la legislación laboral sino la reacción de los empleadores ante diferentes alternativas de contratación.
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Las barras bravas y la ausencia del gol: entre comandos y trincheras
¿Nacidos para ser salvajes?: iIdentidad y violencia juvenil en los 901998Martín Benavides, ,
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A case study of Manthoc, the movement of working children in Peru
Old enough to work, old enough to have a say1998,
Principios de autonomía de Manthoc como organización, su afán por la representación de los niños, su orientación hacia el conjunto de niños parte de los movimientos de NATs e implementación de una metodología.
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El comercio de la cascarilla en el norte peruano-sur ecuatoriano
El norte en la historia regional, siglos XVIII-XIX1997Miguel Jaramillo,
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News
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“If the rights to health and pensions go from being labor rights to human rights, their financing must expand in the same direction.” In his new weekly article for Jugo de Caigua, our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo writes about the paradigm shift required by the labor market in Peru.
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Labor Day: How to reduce job insecurity in Peru?
May 1, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
Forced labor is not only labor without a contract. There has to be the exercise of violence against these people, so that they can effectively do the job. They have mobility restrictions. They can be locked up in a certain area. In general, there is a set of actions that subvert their individual freedom”. Miguel […]
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Peruvian labor market: less productive, less equitable and more precarious, by Miguel Jaramillo
April 30, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“We have a less productive, more inequitable labor market –with a greater gap between formal and informal– and more precarious. Today this market has less access to social benefits and the protection of the law.” In his new op-ed for Forbes Peru, our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo reviews how Peru’s response to the pandemic and current labor […]
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More noise than nuts in the labor tree, by Hugo Ñopo
April 27, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“It is difficult to make precise estimates of the expected impacts of the new Labor Code, but I dare to anticipate that they will not be very large. As happened with the VAT reduction regulations that were recently passed, there is more noise here than nuts. This is very bad news, because we will continue […]
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Media GRADE, Opinion Article, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hitting the AFP like piñatas, by Hugo Ñopo
April 20, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The private pension system was born with an original sin: trying to turn the right to a decent retirement into a commodity with high commissions”. Read the new weekly column by Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, for Jugo de Caigua about the new retirement of AFP (Pension Fund Administrators) approved by the Economy Commission of our […]
Events
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Lorena Alcázar and Miguel Jaramillo joined the First Meeting Think Tanks and COVID-19 in Latin America
21/04/2020 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Evento online Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
Researchers and other thinktankers joined yesterday the First Meeting Think Tanks & COVID-19 in Latin America. The event was held by Southern Voice and On Think Tanks. Our senior researchers Lorena Alcázar and Miguel Jaramillo were discussants in the parallel sessions on social and economic issues. The purpose of the meeting was to exchange diagnoses and policy recommendations that may […]
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Martín Valdivia is a speaker at the 1st Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network
13/12/2019 4:00 am - 6:00 am Auditorium Ivan Pictet, Maison de la paix, Geneva Employment, productivity and innovation, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
Our Senior Researcher, Martín Valdivia, is a speaker at the 1st Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network, on December 12th and 13th in Geneva, Switzerland. The theme of the conference is inclusion. Organizers want to understand who benefits from investments in private enterprises and what can be done better, the characteristics of inclusive firms, […]
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2030 Agenda: Promoting Global South research within international debates
26/11/2019 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Live stream Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
On Tuesday, November 26, the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) and Southern Voice will discuss the challenges and opportunities to strengthen the participation of public policy experts and researchers from the Global South in international development debates. Southern Voice is a network of more than 50 think tanks from countries in Africa, Latin […]
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GRADE’s researchers at the 30th Annual CIES Research Seminar
04/11/2019 → 07/11/2019 8:00 am - 6:00 pm Hotel José Antonio Deluxe (Calle Bellavista 133, Miraflores) Employment, productivity and innovation, Rural development and agriculture, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
Several of our researchers will be presenters and panelists at the 30th Annual Research Seminar of the Consortium of Economic and Social Research (CIES), on November 4-7 . The annual event will address the general topic “Towards the sustainability of development in Peru”. In addition, in this issue, GRADE is coorganizing the research session on youth employment and gender. AGENDA You may […]
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Geneva: Martín Valdivia will be a presenter at the EGAP Policy Workshop
12/10/2019 Geneva, Switzerland Employment, productivity and innovation
Our Senior Researcher, Martín Valdivia, will be a presenter at the EGAP (Evidence in Governance and Politics) policy workshop in Geneva, Switzerland. During the workshop, findings of recent experimental research on drivers of migration, conflict, and peace with a focus on actionable insights and policy recommendations will be discussed. Because successful uptake of evidence benefits […]
- 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
