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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Understanding the Role of the Couple in Key Decisions and Actions of the Female Entrepreneur in Peru
Measuring women’s economic empowerment: Lessons from South America2017 Martin Valdivia
For this study, the author analyzed two variants of the question about the extent to which women evidence agency: women’s participation in making key business decisions and men’s participation in carrying out household chores in urban Peru. The objective of the analysis was to understand in a better way the relationship between women entrepreneurs and their […]
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Los efectos desprotectores de la protección del empleo: el impacto de la reforma del contrato laboral del 2001
2017 Miguel Jaramillo, Julio Almonacid, Luciana de la Flor
Cuatro de cada cinco relaciones laborales en el sector formal de la economía peruana están amparadas en contratos temporales. Esta proporción es groseramente superior a la de cualquier país de la OECD y también bastante mayor a la de cualquiera de los países de nuestra región latinoamericana. El objeto de este estudio es elucidar el rol […]
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How do Latin American migrants in the U.S. stand on schooling premium? What does it reveal about education quality in their home countries?
2017 Daniel Alonso-Soto, Hugo Ñopo
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world’s population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the U.S. (Bratsberg and Terrell 2002). […]
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El género y las trayectorias hacia la adultez en el Perú: educación, trabajo y maternidad/paternidad
2017 Vanessa Rojas, Gabriela Guerrero, Jimena Vargas
En este documento examinamos cómo el género afecta las trayectorias educativas, laborales y de maternidad/ paternidad de una muestra de jóvenes que crecen en situación de pobreza en el Perú. Reportamos los resultados y las trayectorias de 26 miembros de la cohorte mayor que participaron en la investigación cualitativa del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio […]
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JournalJournal on Education in Emergencies
Can Teacher Training Programs Influence Gender Norms? Mixed-Methods Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda
2017 Marjorie Chinen, Andrea Coombes, Thomas De Hoop, Rosa Castro-Zarzur, Mohammed Elmeski
This mixed-methods cluster-randomized controlled trial examines the impact of a teacher-training program that aimed to promote positive gender socialization in the conflict-affected region of Karamoja, Uganda. The theory of change suggests that the education system and teachers can play critical roles in promoting positive gender roles and gender equality, which has important implications for peacebuilding. […]
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Gender and racial discrimination in hiring: a pseudo audit study for three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima
2004, Maximo Torero,
We analyze gender and racial diferences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: salespersons, secretaries and (accounting and administrative) assistants.
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Matching as a tool to decompose wage gaps
2004,
In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages.
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Ethnicity and earnings in urban Peru
2004, Maximo Torero,
The relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. Our approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its several dimensions: mother tongue, parental background, religion, migration events and race.
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Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima
2004, Maximo Torero,
In the paper, the authors adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: salespersons, secretaries and (accounting and administrative) assistants. The adapted pseudo-audit study methodology allows them to reduce the room for existence of statistical discrimination. […]
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Ethnicity and Earnings in Urban Peru
2004, Maximo Torero,
In this paper the authors study the relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. The authors approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its several dimensions: mother tongue, parental background, religion, migration events and race. In order to approximate what can be called racial differences in a […]
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Projects
News
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Perú Debate: Miguel Jaramillo talked with Gustavo Yamada about employment and labor informality
June 17, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Going towards a system where companies contract formally and can live in formality in a simpler way is clearly the route to follow. In addition, social protection is an element that the population is demanding and that would allow, under a scheme less burdened towards the labor market, that companies have a higher level of […]
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GRADE and Southern Voice join the CORE Initiative COVID-19 Responses for Equity
June 10, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
GRADE join CORE COVID-19 Responses for Equity, an initiative gathering 21 projects from 42 countries that seeks to understand the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, improve existing responses, and generate better policy options for recovery. Together with Southern Voice, our centre takes part with a project that focuses on how to achieve sustainable and gender inclusive improvements in food […]
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Unpaid Family Work: Informal and no income, by Hugo Ñopo
January 11, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“These people are probably in one of the most beautiful forms of cooperation and solidarity, but also in one of the most precarious working conditions. Is there anything more precarious than a zero-income labor informality?” Our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo writes in Foco Economico about who and where are unpaid family workers in Peru. Gathering the annual […]
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A victory of the agrarian workers?, by Miguel Jaramillo
December 9, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The most critical problem in the labor markets in our country, agricultural or in other sectors, is informality. Policies that want to favor workers should focus on this problem.” The new op-ed of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo for El Comercio addresses the repealed labor regime of the Agrarian Promotion Law.
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Lorena Alcázar joined a REDES podcast about the drama of the “ninis” in Peru
December 7, 2020 Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
“The vulnerability of young people in the context of a pandemic is usually associated only with the ‘NEETs’, but in reality the problem is more complex and heterogeneous. There are almost a third of women who, in most cases, are dedicated to maternity or domestic work “. Our senior researcher Lorena Alcazar joined the fifth episode of ‘Hablemos […]
Events
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Hugo Ñopo will discuss on the relevance of saving, at the III Asbanc National Forum on Education and Financial Inclusion
21/10/2016 11:00 am Employment, productivity and innovation
The III National Forum on Education and Finance Inclusion, held by Asbanc on October 20 and 21, aims to share with new authorities proposals from private institutions on the priorities of the National Financial Inclusion Strategy for the next five years and to reach consensus on the following steps on the way to the National Financial Inclusion Plan. On […]
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Seminario “Diálogo entre investigación y políticas públicas. Retos del desarrollo en el Perú de cara al bicentenario”
26/09/2016 → 27/09/2016 9:30 am - 6:00 pm Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
El lunes 26 de septiembre, a las 9:30 a.m., GRADE inaugura el seminario “Diálogo entre investigación y políticas públicas. Retos del desarrollo en el Perú de cara al bicentenario” con la presentación del Vicepresidente de Sectores y Conocimiento del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. La sesión inaugural será transmitida en vivo. En décadas recientes, el Perú ha […]
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GRADE’s researchers join the 3rd Peruvian Economic Association Annual Congress
05/08/2016 → 06/08/2016 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Campus PUCP (Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel) Employment, productivity and innovation, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, State reform and public institutions
Several of our researchers will join the 3rd Peruvian Economic Association APE Annual Congress, on August 5-6 2016, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The meeting will gather research economists, mainly Peruvian, to discuss recent studies in diverse fields of Economics. The congress takes part of several activities undertake by APE since its founding in 2014, for promoting and […]
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Martín Valdivia, Lorena Alcázar y Eduardo Zegarra participarán en la conferencia anual de PEP, en Filipinas
06/06/2016 → 08/06/2016 Manila, Filipinas Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
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GRADE celebra sus 35 años de vida institucional con la conferencia Avances recientes en la investigación y políticas para el desarrollo
25/11/2015 → 26/11/2015 3:30pm - 7:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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- 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
