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Thursday, 23 de January de 2025Miguel Jaramillo on the deterioration of youth employment
According to Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, “other factors for the reduction in youth employment is the discouragement regarding the future among young people, who may be choosing to emigrate or, in more extreme cases, fall into criminal activities”. Management article for subscribers here.
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Wednesday, 22 de January de 2025
A new approach to children’s work that prioritises resilience, well-being and agency: emerging findings from a ‘cash plus’ intervention in Bangladesh
Background: Criticism of mainstream approaches to child labour is widespread and well-established. The Child Labour Action Research in South and Southeast Asia (CLARISSA) Cash Plus pilot sought to address these critiques through an innovative programme that prioritised the development of household resilience and well-being, and through increasing household capacity to make alternative choices around children’s work. […]
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Monday, 13 de January de 2025
The Peruvian labor market in 2024: no place for young people, by Miguel Jaramillo
“It seems incredible how little attention the issue of young people receives, when its possible consequences can already be glimpsed: those who can leave the country: those who cannot, turn to the ‘easy’ money of crime”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the decay of formal youth employment in Peru. Read the full article in […]
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Monday, 6 de January de 2025
Miguel Jaramillo comments on the dynamics of employment generation and economic growth expected for 2025
“There will be a first half of the year in which we continue with the momentum of the previous year, and a second stage more marked by the political context, where people are more reluctant to consume and investors are more reluctant to invest.” Our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo shares his opinion on the dynamics […]
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Tuesday, 17 de December de 2024
Miguel Jaramillo discussed the results of the EDO 2025 Occupational Demand Survey
“Looking at the data for Metropolitan Lima, since the pre-pandemic until the end of last year, the labor supply of young people has fallen 14%. This is a figure that is only observed in periods of war, not in normal conditions. We have no international experience where the labor supply has fallen so sharply for such […]
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Wednesday, 4 de December de 2024
Miguel Jaramillo on “underpaid” workers in the country. Via Gestión
According to Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, although in the informal sector almost everyone is underemployed due to income, “both in the formal and informal sectors there may be underemployed”. Read the full article in Diario Gestión for subscribers here.
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Monday, 4 de November de 2024
Miguel Jaramillo shares his opinion on an eventual increase of the Peruvian minimum wage. Via La República de Colombia
“The minimum wage decision is not based on technical and economic grounds, it is a political decision”. Our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts on the new proposals for an eventual increase in the Peruvian minimum wage. Read the article on the website of La República de Colombia here.
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Tuesday, 29 de October de 2024
Alessandro Goglio
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. […]
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Tuesday, 29 de October de 2024
Miguel Jaramillo shares his opinion on the increase in public employment. Via Gestión.
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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Thursday, 24 de October de 2024
Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts on the increase in formal employment. Via Gestión.
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 […]
