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Miguel Jaramillo shared his thoughts in Forbes Peru about the increase in the minimum wage announced by Pedro Castillo
“The recovery of employment has basically been due to the informalization of labor relations. Formal employment is stagnant. Raising the minimum wage is not understanding what the problem in the economy is”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, shared his opinion at Forbes Peru about the economic effects of President Castillo’s announcement.
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Hugo Ñopo in TV Peru: A balance of the first 100 days of government
What has been achieved and what is pending in the economy in the first 100 days of government? According to Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researche at GRADE, although in the macro and in health we are doing well, in education, “it should be enormously alarming that today our students are not returning to the classroom in a majority number”. […]
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Martín Benavides on the educational crisis in Peru and alternative solutions for returning to the classroom
“It is time to change the strategy. Dialogue is important, without a doubt, but to the extent that children and adolescents do not participate in this dialogue, we are not sure that their right is guaranteed.” Martín Benavides, GRADE senior researcher and former Minister of Education, joined a Radio Programas del Perú Noticias special programme on the […]
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Wilson Hernández shares his opinion on the authorization of the Armed Forces to support the Police to fight crime
“Although the people of the Armed Forces can generate a sense of protection for us, they do not judge, they are not going to put anyone in jail, and, in reality, they are a very short-term solution to a problem that is structural in the Callao and other parts of the country”. Our adjunct researcher Wilson Hernández […]
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Studies by GRADE researchers on the minimum wage are quoted by IPE via El Comercio
The Peruvian Institute of Economics explains why the results found by David Card, 2021 Nobel Laureate in Economics —that a minimum wage increase does not necessarily generate unemployment— would not be applicable for Peru. In the article, he quotes the work of our senior researchers Alan Sánchez, Miguel Jaramillo, and Hugo Ñopo.
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ACIL Anti-corruption Innovation Lab
El Laboratorio de Innovación para la Lucha Anticorrupción (ACIL) es una iniciativa de GRADE y PNUD que coordina, facilita y promueve procesos de innovación en el diseño de políticas anticorrupción basadas en evidencia sobre lo que funciona para prevenir, desincentivar o penalizar la corrupción en los distintos niveles de gobierno. OBJETIVO Coordinar, facilitar y promover la generación de […]
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Towards a more functional labor market, by Paola del Carpio and Miguel Jaramillo
“Although our norms point to salaried relationships indefinitely, what we have is a labor market with predominantly informal relationships, which affect more than 9 million Peruvians. In addition, within formality, short-term relationships predominate. Informality is a determining problem to grow with resilience”. Read the recent op-ed by Paola del Carpio (REDES) and Miguel Jaramillo (GRADE) vía […]
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Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts in RPP Noticias on the recovery of employment after the crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic
According to Miguel Jaramillo, currently informal employees have income 20% lower than what they registered before the pandemic. Read the article from RPP Noticias with the opinion of our Senior Researcher on the recovery of employment after the crisis.
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Research on public investment and inequality by Lorena Alcázar and Miguel Jaramillo is highlighted in RPP Noticias
Public investment could be a driver for economic reactivation, however it is not fulfilling its purpose of reducing inequality in the country. RPP Noticias highlighted a study by our Senior Researchers Lorena Alcázar and Miguel Jaramillo, whose findings we discussed last week.
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Recovery of production and informalization of employment, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The heterogeneous responses to the ‘shock’ that the labor market has received have revealed a clear and growing trend towards informalization at the same time as a relative decline in wage relationships”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the heterogeneous recovery of the labor market after the impact of the pandemic on the Peruvian […]
