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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Descentralización de recursos humanos en educación: ¿mercado nacional o mercados regionales de docentes?
Conferencia de Economía Laboral: Tendencias del Empleo, Capital Humano, Informalidad y Rotación Laboral2008 Miguel Jaramillo
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Más crecimiento, más equidad: Prioridades de desarrollo en Guatemala
2008 Ernesto Stein, María Soledad Bos, Jesús Duarte, Mario Cuevas, Nathalie Alvarado, Gustavo Beliz, Alberto Daniel Barreix, Jerónimo Roca, Sebastián Auguste, Mark Jones, Fernando Straface, Hugo Ñopo
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 Gustavo Márquez, Néstor Gandelman, Hugo Ñopo, Laura Ripani, Alberto Chong, Eduardo Lora
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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JournalThe Review of Economics and Statistics
Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps
2008 Hugo Ñopo
The paper presents a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender wage differences. The approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of observable characteristics and provides insights into the distribution of unexplained gender pay differences. This nonparametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition does not require the estimation of earnings equations […]
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JournalRevista Economía
Occupational training to reduce gender segregation: The impacts of ProJoven
2008 Hugo Ñopo, Miguel Robles
The paper illustrates the process of program evaluation for ProJoven, the Peruvian youth labor training program. The program provides beneficiaries with basic three-month training in lowskill occupations and with internship opportunities. ProJoven’s design promotes gender equality by encouraging female participation in training for traditionally male-dominated occupations and by providing subsidies so mothers with children can […]
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Projects
News
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Rigidez laboral reduce el empleo formal y aplasta a la mediana empresa
September 22, 2014 Employment, productivity and innovation
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No hay interés en pasar a la formalidad por los altos costos y la fiscalización
September 18, 2014 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Lorena Alcázar, Juan José Díaz, Martín Valdivia y Javier Escobal participaron de seminario internacional sobre protección social, emprendimiento y activación del mercado laboral
September 12, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Employment, productivity and innovation, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, State reform and public institutions
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El mejor ‘gancho’ de empresas para retener trabajadores es pagarles más
August 19, 2014 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Compiten por más empleados, opinión de Miguel Jaramillo
August 18, 2014 Employment, productivity and innovation
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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
