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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Labour Market Information Programmes
2013 Miguel Jaramillo
The Brief then provides an overview of monitoring and evaluation indicators and impact assessments before concluding with a discussion of enabling factors and key lessons for other regions.
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Peru’s ProJoven Training Programme
2013 Miguel Jaramillo
Este brief proporciona un análisis del diseño, funcionamiento de los mencanismos e impactos del programa ProJoven para extraer los factores clave de éxito que serán útiles para otras regiones.
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Impacto de la licencia municipal en el desempeño de las microempresas en el Cercado de Lima
2013 Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo
Aportes para el debate sobre el efecto de las reformas municipales de simplificación administrativa en el comportamiento de la microempresa.
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Diferenciales de ingreso entre trabajadores públicos y privados
2013 Marco Pariguana
El estudio pretende complementar la escasa literatura existente sobre los diferenciales de ingreso entre el sector público y privado, en el marco del debate en torno a la reforma del servicio civil peruano.
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Peruvian Microfinance’s Caja Municipal Model
2013 Miguel Jaramillo
This Brief tells the story of the Caja Municipales system, focusing on the Caja Trujillo example to offer lessons learned for other regions.
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Projects
News
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Miguel Jaramillo shared in Ideeleradio conclusions of GRADE’s Territories and Development International Conference
June 13, 2018 Rural development and agriculture, Employment, productivity and innovation, State reform and public institutions
Miguel Jaramillo, executive director at GRADE, spoke with Glatzer Tuesta, host of No hay derecho (Not fair) of Ideeleradio, on the regulation of the labor market in Peru, and shared some conclusions of our Territories and Development International Conference, held last week. Miguel spoke about the need for policies for the rural sector to respond to a […]
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Miguel Jaramillo addresses the state of labor informality in Peru
April 30, 2018 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The probability that a young person has a formal contract for an indefinite period of time is 2%. This is a serious problem. The most pertinent training for a young person is the one the firm gives him, but that occurrence has practically been cut. ” Our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, spoke with RPP Noticias […]
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Miguel Jaramillo gives his thoughts about the unemployment rate during the first quarter of 2018 in Metropolitan Lima
April 16, 2018 Employment, productivity and innovation
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
April 9, 2018 Employment, productivity and innovation
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 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 […]
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
