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Miguel Jaramillo: Constitutional Court reduced the probability of having an indefinite employment contract by 57%
The magazine SEMANAeconómica highlights the study of our executive director, Miguel Jaramillo, who finds a relationship between a judgment issued by the Constitutional Court that allows reinstatement in a job and the reduction in the probability that a worker has a contract for an indefinite period and the fall of unionization. Miguel discussed his findings […]
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Hugo Ñopo gives his thoughts on the challenges of the public budget for the development of the education sector
“Today we spend 3.7% of GDP on education. Moving from 3.7% to 6% is impossible in the medium term. So, first we have to sincere the goal.” Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, gave his thoughts on the relevance of setting a feasible, verifiable and monitorable route for the population to promote the development of education […]
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Poverty rises in Peru for the first time in 10 years: why did it happen?
Why did monetary poverty grow in Peru for the first time in 10 years? Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, said in CNN that there are two main factors: the Peruvian economy has stopped growing as before and the changes in social policy. He explained that “if we grow less, there is higher unemployment, less money for […]
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Poverty in Peru rises for the first time in this millenium
Monetary poverty rose one point in 2017 -the first increase of this millennium- according to the National Household Survey of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics of Peru. Regarding these results, our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, warns that now we are a country with more urban poor than rural poor, a new challenge for policy […]
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Metropolitan Lima does not see employment growth since May 2017
Formal employment in urban areas of Peru fell 0.5% in February, accumulating eight consecutive months of decline, according to the Ministry of Labor and Promotion of Employment. In addition, there have been 14 months in which formal employment in Metropolitan Lima observed a fall. According to our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, “although economic activity is not […]
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The Peruvian laboral clutter
The Compendium of Standards on Labor Legislation of the Ministry of Labor, updated to August 2017, has 136 standards compiled in almost 1,400 pages and more than 2,000 articles. In an article by El Comercio on the complexity of labor legislation. For our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, it is not reasonable to expect a small […]
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Minimum wage increase would arrive without economic justification and would affect formal employment
Within a few days for the decision that the Ministry of Labor will take on the minimum wage increase, Semana Económica reviews its justification at a time of the labor market of greater informality and rise of underemployment. Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE and one of the authors of the study The deprotecting effects of employment protection, […]
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International Women Day: Only 14 in 249 firms have a woman as a CEO
According to data gathered by Hugo Ñopo, only 14 in 249 firms listed on the Bolsa de Valores de Lima (Lima Stock Exchange) have a woman as a CEO. However, our senior researcher says in El Comercio: “Although initiatives to change policies assumed by firms are needed, household chores are also important. Typically, of 30 hours of household tasks, women […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: “The coast should not produce potatoes in the most expensive and irrigated lands in Peru, and maybe neither quinoa”
Was overproduction the trigger for the collapse of potato prices? Eduardo Zegarra, principal investigator of GRADE, said in the Agrarian News Agency that the problem was that some valleys of the coast produced excessively between December and February, leaving the central highlands almost without market and at the time when its producers entered with the tuber.
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Hugo Ñopo’s thoughts on the number of informal schools in Lima and the country
According to Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, the number of informal schools in Lima is linked to the increase in private enrollment, which in our capital stands for 50%, and to the preference of many parents for this type of educational offer: “It is a heterogeneous increase, although one part is of high quality, […]
