Publications of Employment, productivity and innovation
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Mejorando la empleabilidad de mujeres urbanas vulnerables en tiempos de pandemia en el Perú: evaluación experimental del componente de capacitación virtual en un programa de empleo temporal
This paper evaluates the impact of a training programme delivered randomly to beneficiaries of the temporary employment programme Trabaja Perú (TP). This experiment offers the opportunity to examine the impact of the intervention targeting vulnerable women in a particular context of high unemployment such as that generated by COVID-19. The study uses a mainly quantitative […]
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Employment protection legislation and on-the-job training in an informal labor market: evidence from Peru
Training and learning on the job are two critical channels for human capital accumulation during work years. Several studies in developed countries have found that fixed-term contract (FTC) workers receive less training sponsored by their employers than openended contract (OEC) workers do. In contrast, FTC workers participate more actively in informal learning during their job […]
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Innovación en el sector público
Innovation processes in the public sector are essential to generate new and improved services or goods, but also to reform and make the delivery process of existing ones more efficient. To this end, the government must be clear about the delivery model for these public services or goods, as well as the distribution of competencies […]
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La protección social en el Perú: estado actual y cómo marchar hacia el acceso universal
This essay seeks to summarize the state of the art on social protection in Peru, and to suggest some concrete fields of action to advance in the design of a system that covers all citizens.
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Educación superior, políticas inclusivas y discriminación en el mercado laboral
This essay addresses the issue of productivity from the angle of human capital formation. This study summarizes the advances in access to education and shows the pending task in higher education, and then discusses the role of inclusive policies with the example of Beca 18 in the context of a labor market marked by racial […]
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El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar
The essays that make up this book have been written to commemorate the first 40 years of GRADE’s institutional life, which coincides not only with the Bicentennial of Peru’s Independence, but also with the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its profound economic, social and political consequences. From different conceptual and methodological perspectives, […]
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Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Observational Study in Brazil
This paper studies the impact of microcredit in Brazil. We use a propensity score matching on original primary data on business and personal outcomes to compare veteran clients of BNDES—Brazil’s largest government-owned development bank—to a matched sample of more recent clients. Based on administrative data as well as data from a survey of 2107 clients […]
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Inversión pública y desigualdad en América Latina
Based on two case studies, in Peru and Colombia, this study finds that public investment has an inequality-reducing effect, but a very small one, so that a large investment would be needed to achieve a minimal reduction in inequality. In addition, it is found that the effect of public investment depends on the level of […]
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Actitudes ante el riesgo y preferencias intertemporales de los trabajadores peruanos
Every individual, when making economic decisions, must evaluate different options with uncertain results that will affect their well-being at different moments in time. Based on the meeting between theoretical and experimental economics, this document estimates the risk and intertemporal consumption preferences of Peruvian workers. The authors contribute in two ways: they study how workers make […]
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COVID-19 y las migraciones de la ciudad al campo en el Perú: identificación de amenazas y oportunidades para el uso sostenible del capital natural
This study analyses the dynamics of this return migration to rural areas during 2020 using census data and records of returnee arrivals, and then interviews more than 3,000 households in 19 provinces and 77 districts with the largest flows. Based on this information, we estimate that around a quarter of a million people, mostly young […]
