Media GRADE
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Miguel Jaramillo gives his thoughts about the unemployment rate during the first quarter of 2018 in Metropolitan Lima
Between January and March 2018, the unemployment rate in Metropolitan Lima reached 8.1%, the highest level since the same period in 2012, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). According to Miguel Jaramillo, in an interview with RPP Noticias, the underlying factor is the weakness of the economy, which translates into a lower capacity […]
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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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What would Vizcarra say?, by Hugo Ñopo
What does Martin Vizcarra’s experience in education tell us? Our senior researcher Hugo Ñopo writes in El Comercio about the achievement in learning indicators of students in Moquegua while Vizcarra was its regional president, and what could be attempted at the national level.
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Lorena Alcázar’s findings on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru are highlighted by Instituto Integración
The latest report of Integration Institute (Instituto Integración) highlights a study conducted by Lorena Alcázar, senior researcher at GRADE, on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru, which finds that “anaemia costs Peruvian society approximately S./ 2.777 billion (0.4% of GDP in 2016)”.
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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, […]
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Educación privada: sumas y restas
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