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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Innovación en el sector público
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Juana Kuramoto
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
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Miguel Jaramillo
En este ensayo se busca resumir el estado de la cuestión sobre la protección social en el Perú, y sugerir algunos campos de acción concretos para avanzar en el diseño de un sistema que cubra a todos los ciudadanos.
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Educación superior, políticas inclusivas y discriminación en el mercado laboral
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Jorge Aguero
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
2022 Maria Balarin, Santiago Cueto, Ricardo Fort
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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JournalThe European Journal of Development Research
Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Observational Study in Brazil
2022 Rafael Goldszmidt, Patrick Behr, Cesar Zucco, Anna-Katharina Lenz, Lauro Gonzalez, Martin Valdivia
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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Pathways to Formalization: Going Beyond the Formality Dichotomy
2018
Too often, academics and policy makers interpret formality as a binary choice and formalization as an irreversible process. Yet, formalization has many facets and shades on the business and labor fronts, and firms may not be able or willing to formalize all at once. This paper explores the joint process of business and labor formalization, […]
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Pathways to formalization: going beyond the formality dichotomy
2018
Too often, academics and policy makers interpret formality as a binary choice and formalization as an irreversible process. Yet, formalization has many facets and shades on the business and labor fronts, and firms may not be able or willing to formalize all at once. This paper explores the joint process of business and labor formalization, […]
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No longer children: What do Young Lives children do when they grow up?
2018
No longer children: What do Young Lives children do when they grow up? is a Young Lives research report, synthesising research from the past two survey rounds (in 2013 and 2016) to reflect on how the experience of poverty early in life affects future opportunities, documenting children and young people’s trajectories from school into post-secondary […]
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Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
2018
This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low- and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty-five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi-experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta-synthesis includes findings from […]
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Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
2017
This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low- and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty-five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi-experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta-synthesis includes findings from […]
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JournalLaborem
La perspectiva económica de la regulación laboral y la legislación laboral peruana
2016Miguel Jaramillo,
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JournalWorld Development
Participatory Democracy and Effective Policy: Is There a Link? Evidence from Rural Peru
2015Miguel Jaramillo, ,
We examine the relationship between participatory democratic institutions and effective agricultural policy in rural Peruvian municipalities, using a unique quantitative dataset of 100 Peruvian municipalities at two points in time, allowing us to examine (a) bottom-up, grassroots participatory governance institutions, and (b) Peru’s top-down participatory budgeting reform implemented in all Peruvian sub-national governments in the […]
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JournalJournal of Development Economics
Business training plus for female entrepreneurship? Short and medium-term experimental evidence from Peru
2015Martin Valdivia,
With millions of women around the developing world thrown into self-employment but with low productivity, increasing the profitability of their businesses is highly relevant for poverty reduction and gender equity. This study evaluates the impacts of a BDS program serving female microentrepreneurs in Lima using an experimental design, that included two treatment groups: One received […]
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JournalEnvironment and Development Economics
Extractive industries and local development in the Peruvian Highlands
2015, Javier Escobal,
During the last 20 years, the mining sector in Peru has been experiencing sustained growth. Using census, administrative, nationally and regionally representative data we compare districts in the Peruvian Highlands with a recent mining development with suitable counterfactuals. We find that the new mining activities attract migration inflows, and have some positive effects over educational […]
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JournalEstudios Económicos
Productividad sectorial en el Perú: un análisis a nivel de firmas
2014, , Alan Sanchez, ,
In this paper we estimate the production function by economic sectors in Peru, we also characterize the productivity of firms by using two indicators: the total factor productivity and the labour productivity. The data correspond to the total formal firms observed between 2002 and 2011, information that allows to correct the traditional econometric problems behind […]
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Productividad sectorial en el Perú: un análisis a nivel de firmas
Productividad en el Perú: medición, determinantes e implicancias2016, , Alan Sanchez, ,
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Los retornos de las habilidades cognitivas y socioemocionales en el Perú
Productividad en el Perú: medición, determinantes e implicancias2016Juan Jose Diaz, , ,
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El proceso de certificación del pisco peruano: una propuesta de medición de sus principales efectos
Midiendo el impacto de la infraestructura de la calidad en América Latina: experiencias, alcances y limitaciones2014Ricardo Fort, ,
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Los sectores no primarios y el mercado interno, 1930-1980
Compendio de historia económica: entre la gran depresión y el reformismo militar2014Miguel Jaramillo,
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Leve mejoría en el cumplimiento, pero limitado por la alta informalidad
Incumplimiento con el salario mínimo en América Latina: el peso de los factores económicos e institucionales2014Juan Jose Diaz,
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El modelo de la caja municipal en Perú
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
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Expansión de las microfinanzas en zonas rurales de América Latina
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
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Innovaciones institucionales y normativas para el desarrollo de las microfinanzas en América Latina
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
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Innovaciones tecnológicas en las microfinanzas en América Latina
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
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Spotlight on Publications: Labour market policies in Latin America
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
The publications presented in this Spotlight represent some of the key resources dealing with issues related to labour market policies in Latin America.
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Más crecimiento, más equidad: Prioridades de desarrollo en Guatemala
2008,
La estructura y selección de temas de la presente publicación responde, en su mayor parte, a un diagnóstico de crecimiento para Guatemala realizado en 2007, donde se identificaron un conjunto de factores que afectan las posibilidades de desarrollo del país. A lo largo de las páginas hay un reconocimiento tácito de que, si bien todos […]
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Outsiders?: The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
2008,
This report raises a number of fundamental questions about the multidimensional and interrelated nature of social exclusion and moves beyond the traditional emphasis on outcomes and groups to view exclusion as a process that results from societal traits that limit the functionings of the excluded. Using the tools of experimental economics, the report shows the […]
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Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú
2007Eduardo Zegarra, Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce, Juana Kuramoto, Manuel Glave, Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo, , Juan Jose Diaz, , Maximo Torero, Santiago Cueto, Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Martin Valdivia, Nestor Valdivia,
Este libro recoge las Mimeos presentadas en la conferencia Investigación, políticas y desarrollo, realidad en el marco del 25 aniversario del Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo.
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Cambios globales y el mercado laboral peruano: comercio, legislación, capital humano y empleo
2005Miguel Jaramillo,
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Jóvenes emprendedores: evaluación de programas de promoción
2003Miguel Jaramillo, ,
El limitado dinamismo del mercado laboral asalariado en el Perú no permite absorber la demanda de puestos de trabajo de los jóvenes y muchos optan por generar su propio empleo. ¿Hay maneras efectivas de apoyarlos?
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Projects
- Youth and inequality in Peru: opportunities and barriersJanuary 2017
- Reviewing innovation agencies in Latin AmericaDecember 2016
- Preparing a guide document on Science, Technology & Innovation research for San Agustin National UniversityNovember 2016
- Science, Technology & Innovation: Review and AgendaOctober 2016
- Informalidad entre las pequeñas y micro empresasJanuary 2016
- Promoviendo el liderazgo de las mujeres en pequeñas empresasJune 2015
- Estudio de Benchmarking en Incubadora en BionegociosJune 2015
- Identificación de población objetivo del Programa Presupuestal Desarrollo Productivo EmpresasDecember 2014
- Evaluación de intervenciones que promueven el liderazgo de las mujeres en pequeñas empresasOctober 2014
- Ahorro Programado y el bienestar de los hogares pobres en República DominicanaSeptember 2014
News
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“Urgent: better opportunities for young people,” by Miguel Jaramillo
September 19, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Entering the labor market through precarious jobs often leads to equally precarious life and work trajectories.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, writes about the urgency of promoting better opportunities for young people and the challenges for policy design. Read his full article in El Comercio.
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Miguel Jaramillo: “The recovery of employment is reaching its limits”
July 24, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The recovery of employment is reaching its limits”. According to Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, a correction in the deterioration of the Peruvian labor market is not expected in view of the bad outlook for the economy and investment. He questioned the measures taken by the Congress that affect the labor market. Interview under […]
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Does politics affect the uptake of social policies? Post by Martín Valdivia and others in The Journal of Politics’ blog
June 25, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation
Martin Valdivia and coauthors examine whether policy preferences affect the uptake and learning from government programs in the context of Brazil’s Individual Microentrepreneur Program, which provides subsidized access to social security coverage and business-related incentives. To this end, they report the results of a field experiment in low-income communities in Rio de Janeiro. Blog based on […]
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Miguel Jaramillo’s commentary on poverty reduction in the Inter-American Dialogue’s daily Latin America Advisor
June 23, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Going back to a path of poverty reduction requires a more promising business environment and a modicum of political stability”. Read the full commentary by our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo in the Inter-American Dialogue’s daily Latin America Advisor.
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#8M La Mirada: Women workers, in the crisis and after, by Miguel Jaramillo
March 19, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
“Women have more self-employment and less salaried work, figure less among business employers and more among unpaid family workers.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, writes about the impact of the pandemic and the policies implemented in that context on the participation of women workers in economic activity. Read the full op-ed in El Comercio […]
Events
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Manuel Glave discussed a research article on the unrest of the Mining Mita
23/09/2022 2:00 pm Zoom de la PUCP Employment, productivity and innovation
Our Senior Researcher Manuel Glave discussed the findings of the research article “The Legacy of the Spanish Conquista in the Andes: Mining Mita, Persistent Social Unrest, and Cultural Divergence”, by César Huaroto from the Department of Departamento de Economics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and Francisco Gallego. The article addresses the persistent effect […]
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GRADE on live, Publication Presentation, Webinar
GRADE 40 years | Book Launch “El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar”
01/09/2022 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Zoom de GRADE 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, Urbanization and sustainable cities
El Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) organizes the launch of the book “El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar” (The Pending Peru: essays for a development with well-being), as part of the commemorative celebration for its forty years of institutional life. The book is a collection of essays that, from different conceptual and […]
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GRADE researchers will be speakers and discussants at the VII Annual Congress 2022 of the Peruvian Association of Economics (APE).
12/08/2022 → 13/08/2022 Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – Campus San Isidro, Lima, Av. General Salaverry 2255, San Isidro Employment, productivity and innovation
GRADE researchers will be speakers and discussants at the VII Annual Congress 2022 of the Peruvian Association of Economics (APE). The event, organized by the Faculty of Economics of the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, will take place on August 12 and 13, 2022. In this edition the theme is “Post-pandemic Economic and Social Challenges”. About […]
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Hugo Ñopo gave the conference Economic Perspectives to 2023 at the César Vallejo University Tarapoto
03/05/2022 7:00 pm Universidad César Vallejo Tarapoto Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
“What if a part of the consumption tax goes to pensions? We have to rethink a new social protection where labor rights are universalized and are no longer just rights of formal workers. The new vision of labor regulation says that what What needs to be protected is not necessarily jobs, but people”. Watch again […]
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Miguel Jaramillo and Hugo Ñopo joined an IPE event on the economic impact of the new labor code
28/04/2022 8:00 am - 9:00 am Facebook del IPE Employment, productivity and innovation
“One of the most worrying things is the new regulations on fixed-term contracts. We have about two and a half million people, about half of the formal salaried PEA, who have temporary contracts. […] What will happen to them the day after this rule is approved? Will they be hired in the black, will they […]
- 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
