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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Latin America’s rural family farmers: evolutions in access to markets and rural income structure
2014 Germán Escobar, Manuel Glave
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Crecimiento y segmentación del empleo en el Perú, 2001-2011
2014 Miguel Jaramillo, Bárbara Sparrow
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El modelo de la caja municipal en Perú
2014 Miguel Jaramillo
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Expansión de las microfinanzas en zonas rurales de América Latina
2014 Miguel Jaramillo
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Innovaciones institucionales y normativas para el desarrollo de las microfinanzas en América Latina
2014 Miguel Jaramillo
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Educación, capital humano y crecimiento: el caso de América Latina
1993, ,
Se evalúa la influencia del nivel de educación formal sobre el crecimiento económico en países de América Latina, y se verifica la relación entre educación, formación de capital humano y crecimiento económico.
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Empleo, ingresos y ocupación de los profesionales y técnicos en el Perú
1993Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui,
Análisis de la real situación en el mercado de trabajo de quienes tuvieron la oportunidad de adquirir educación superior, comparación de sus niveles de empleo e ingresos, entre otros temas afines.
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Producción cocalera y migración campesina en el Perú
1993,
Relación entre crecimiento económico ilegal de la coca en el Perú y migración. Los diferenciales salariales y de violencia política urbana y en regiones productoras explican la migración hacia zonas cocaleras.
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El sector industrial en el Perú: una visión de largo plazo
1991
Evolución del sector industrial peruano mostrando sus características más importantes en los últimos 30 años y poniendo énfasis en los procesos que condicionaron el derrotero de largo plazo del sector.
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Projects
News
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Southern Voice: Precariousness still affects education and employment in Peru and Bolivia
August 20, 2019 Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
On the sidelines of the 2019 annual congress of the Peruvian Association of Economics (APE), Southern Voice hosted a panel on the precariousness of education and employment in Peru and Bolivia. Our senior researcher Lorena Alcázar, Werner Hernani, researcher at Fundación ARU and economist Hugo Ñopo discussed their findings. In this article we share key takeaways from the discussion. Precariousness […]
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Martín Valdivia’s research project on savings and credit groups has been selected by BBVA Edufin Research Grants 2019
June 18, 2019 Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
We congratulate Martín Valdivia, Senior Researcher at GRADE, whose research project on the impact of Savings and Credit Groups (GACC) has been one of the five proposals selected by BBVA Edufin Research Grants 2019. The objective of the study is to investigate if the process of peer learning leads to a healthy connection of these populations with […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: Employment growth would be expected from 2% to 2.5%
February 18, 2019 Employment, productivity and innovation
“It is reasonable to expect an employment growth rate between 2% and 2.5% for this year. How much of that will be formal employment? I do not think there will be much change in the structure, unless it really advances rapidly in fighting some of the issues that generate additional costs in the labor market”. Miguel […]
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Property tax: innovate for better governing, by Ricardo Fort and Alvaro Espinoza
February 14, 2019 Employment, productivity and innovation
Our researchers Ricardo Fort and Álvaro Espinoza shared a concrete and low cost proposal in order to improve the municipal governance and to increase the property tax collection using modern technology. Read the full text in Gestión Newspaper.
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Alfredo Thorne, ex Minister of Economy and Finance, highlights Miguel Jaramillo’s findings on short-term contracts
January 31, 2019 Employment, productivity and innovation
What is expected from an economy in transformation? The research findings of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo on short-term contracts are highlighted by Alfredo Thorne, ex Minister of Economy and Finance. The main conclusion of the study is that there is a great labor mobility within formal employment: workers move between jobs, allowing them to migrate to more productive […]
Events
- 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
