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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Poor education and precarious jobs in Peru: understanding who is left behind and why
2020 Lorena Alcazar, Micaela Bullard, Maria Balarin
Given the large inequalities in Peru, fulfilling the ’leave no one behind’ UN 2030 Agenda commitment might become the country’s largest challenge to SDG implementation. In light of this, understanding who is left behind, and why, gains particular importance. This study uses a mixed methodological approach to provide a baseline of the left behind in […]
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Impactos de la epidemia del coronavirus en el trabajo de las mujeres en el Perú
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
The study aimed to analyze the potential effects of the crisis on the employment and labor income of women in Peru. To achieve this, the research team did a comparative analysis of the labor insertion of women in contrast to men, exploring their strengths and weaknesses in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic situation. The […]
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COVID-19 and external shock. Economic impacts and policy options
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
Latin America is currently suffering from two independent but related shocks: the impact of COVID-19 and the shock of commodity prices. Peru, we argue, is a case in which the strongest impact comes from the pandemic. Peru was the first country in Latin America to react and implement sanitary and economic measures against the coronavirus. […]
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COVID-19 and external shock. Economic impacts and policy options
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
Latin America is currently suffering from two independent but related shocks: the impact of COVID-19 and the shock of commodity prices. Peru, we argue, is a case in which the strongest impact comes from the pandemic. Peru was the first country in Latin America to react and implement sanitary and economic measures against the coronavirus. […]
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Percepciones y expectativas de docentes y familias rurales sobre las escuelas multigrado
2020 Alvaro Ordoñez
El objetivo de este artículo es dar a conocer las percepciones y expectativas que docentes, madres y padres de familia tienen sobre la escuela rural multigrado. Este trabajo forma parte de un estudio realizado por el proyecto CREER, que será publicado próximamente.
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Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Guatemala from a Matching Comparisons Perspective
2008,
The paper analyzes gender and ethnic wage gaps in Guatemala for the period 2000-2006, applying a matching comparisons technique, finding pronounced wage gaps along both gender and ethnic dimensions, the latter being greater. Wage gaps in Guatemala are partially explained by differences in human capital characteristics, especially education, between indigenous and non-indigenous and males and […]
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Gender Segregation in the Workplace and Wage Gaps: Evidence from Urban Mexico 1994-2004
2008,
The authors analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation and wage gaps. The results suggest that the complete elimination of hierarchical segregation would reduce the observed gender wage gaps […]
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The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparisons Perspective
2007,
The paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Chile during the period 1992 to 2003 using the decomposition approach developed in Ñopo (2004). This approach, which decomposes the wage gap into four additive elements, stresses the need for comparisons inside the common support for the distributions of observable characteristics of individuals. Also, […]
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Becoming an Entrepreneur
2007,
Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametric matching estimator the paper alleviates problems of selection bias (on observable and unobservable traits) and creates the appropriate counterfactuals of interest. The […]
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Entrenamiento ocupacional para reducir la segregación de género: El impacto de Projoven
2007,
El trabajo trata la evaluación de ProJoven, el programa de capacitación para el trabajo de jóvenes en de Perú y muestra las diferencias considerables que hay en sus efectos entre hombres y mujeres. Dieciocho meses después de haber participado en el programa, el empleo entre las mujeres mejoró aproximadamente en 15% (en el caso de […]
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JournalThe Journal of Development Studies
Structural reform, institutions and earnings from the formal and informal sectors in urban Peru
1999,
Reforms undertaken in Perú in the early 1990s might have resulted in a slight reduction of the informal sector. Costs associated with becoming and staying informal, and benefits of becoming formal might have increased.
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JournalPunto de equilibrio
La información en el mercado laboral y el rol del Estado
1998Miguel Jaramillo,
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JournalBoletín de Opinión
El trabajo asalariado en las economías rurales del Perú
1998Martin Valdivia,
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Calificación, salarios y distribución del ingreso en un contexto de ajuste estructural
Empleo y distribución del ingreso en América Latina : ¿hemos avanzado?.1997
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Acceso al crédito en las economías rurales: diferencias entre el sector formal e informal en el Perú
Perú: el problema agrario en debate - SEPIA VI1996Martin Valdivia, ,
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Organización y financiamiento del sistema ciencia-tecnología-innovación: una experiencia de seguimiento regional
Financiamiento sostenido para la investigación y el desarrollo tecnológico en Iberoamérica -
Regional databases and S&T development indicators problems, achievements and utilization of grade’s Latin American database
Les indicateurs de science pour les pays en developpment: science indicators for developing countries1992Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui,
GRADE has accumulated a large volume of S&T and socio-economic indicators gathered in a database. It purpose is to maintain updated statistical data which can be used to monitor the evolution of scientific production in the region.
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Projects
News
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Miguel Jaramillo in Sudaca Perú: What is going on in the labour sector?
April 19, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“What this bill does is make formal hiring more expensive. It will be more difficult for the most productive companies to hire more workers. There’s not much to look forward to in terms of productivity gains. The only beneficiaries of this code are workers who have a permanent contract and, particularly, unionized workers. [However] unionization […]
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Media GRADE, Opinion Article, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Informalities, margins and dimensions, by Hugo Ñopo
April 16, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“When we say that informality in the country reaches 72% of workers, we are adding all those who do not contribute to health or pensions, putting very different realities in the same bag. One part of this informality is combated with inspection, another Some (in fact, the vast majority) do not. Making the distinctions is […]
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Media GRADE, Interview, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in Bloomberg Línea: “The probability of a young person getting a formal job would be even more difficult”
April 14, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The probability of a young person getting a formal job, which is already ridiculously low, would be even more difficult. If the labor policy announcements are oriented towards the fact that it will cost more to fire, that temporary contracts are limited, how do you want firms hire more? If the government really wants to […]
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Is the increase in the minimum wage an impromptu decision? Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion
April 10, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
Is the increase in the minimum wage an impromptu decision? According to Miguel Jaramillo, principal investigator at GRADE, “it is very difficult to justify this type of measure in the current context of depressed formal employment and growing informal employment. The decision is opportunistic, not technical.” Read his full comment in La República.
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Let’s put informality in lockers, by Hugo Ñopo
April 5, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“When we say that informality in the country reaches 72% of workers, we are adding everyone, putting very different realities in the same bag. One part of this informality is fought with inspection, another part (in fact, the vast majority), no. Making the distinctions is important for designing better policies.” Read the latest article by […]
Events
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Upcoming webinar. Synergies between Education and Employment: who is being left behind and what can be done about it?
27/09/2019 10:00 am - 11:00 am Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
On September 27, Southern Voice, GRADE and ARU Foundation will host a webinar to discuss the synergies between education and employment. It will focus on the lessons that can be drawn from the Southern Voice’s “State of the SDGs” cases studies of Bolivia and Peru. The presentations will be addressed by Lorena Alcázar, Senior Researcher […]
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GRADE’s researchers at the 2019 annual congress of the Peruvian Economic Association
08/08/2019 → 09/08/2019 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Universidad del Pacífico (Av. General Salaverry 2020, Jesús María) Employment, productivity and innovation, Rural development and agriculture, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
On August 8-9, our researchers will join the 2019 annual congress of the Peruvian Economic Association (APE), coorganized with the University of the Pacific. In addition, Southern Voice, of which we are members and host organization, will organize a panel on the precariousness of education and employment in Peru and Bolivia. The event is part of various activities carried […]
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Lorena Alcazar presented her Southern Voice’s State of the SDG study on the excluded youth in Peru at the 2019 UN High Level Political Forum
12/07/2019 10:00 am - 11:00 am Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, Nueva York, Estados Unidos Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
Lorena Alcázar, Senior Researcher at GRADE, presented her Southern Voice’s State of the Sustainable Development Goals study, “Poor education and precarious jobs: excluded youth in Peru”, as part of the 2019 United Nations High-level Political Forum (HLPF 2019) on sustainable development. The international event takes place from 9 to 18 July in New York, United […]
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GRADE and CAF held a discussion on the findings of the book Institutions for Productivity
11/07/2019 9:00 am - 11:00 am Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Employment, productivity and innovation
The low prices of feedstocks in the international market have returned, together with an uncertain environment of “commercial wars”. This trend has highlighted the need to redouble efforts to promote a sustained increase in productivity as a path towards sustainable economic growth that will allow the level of welfare of the most developed nations to […]
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Lorena Alcázar shared the findings of her Southern Voice study on those left behind in SDG 4 and SDG 8 in Peru
22/04/2019 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Dag Hammarskjold 3477, Auditorio Enrique V. Iglesias, Santiago, Chile Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
Southern Voice, the United Nations Foundation and Espacio Público held a panel on the synergies between Sustainable Development Goal 8 (decent employment) and Sustainable Development Goal 4 (quality education) and its implications in Latin America. Both goals are part of the High-Level Policy Forum 2019 review. In the event, the findings of the mismatch between the education […]
- 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
