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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Unpacking the Post-lockdown Employment Recovery of Young Women in the Global South
2021 Douglas Scott, Richard Freund, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Alan Sanchez
This paper analyses the difference in short-term employment recovery between young men and women in India, Peru and Vietnam following the national lockdowns imposed in all three countries during 2020. The authors employ a mediation model to establish whether – and to what extent – commonly suggested mechanisms are responsible for a relatively slower recovery among […]
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Política de protección social y laboral en el Ecuador
2021 Hugo Ñopo, Alejandra Peña
How effective is the social protection system in Ecuador to protect the population against various risks? What is its redistributive impact and how much does it contribute to reducing inequality? What effects does it have on productivity? These are the central questions that guide this analysis, in which some answers are tested based on the […]
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Políticas de protección social y laboral en la República Dominicana
2021 Hugo Ñopo, Sócrates Barinas
Social protection in the Dominican Republic results from a combination of social security programs in contributory and non-contributory modalities, labor regulations regarding job stability and minimum wages for a subset of workers, as well as anti-poverty programs. The contributions to the contributory modality and the costs of formal contracting vary according to the sector and […]
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Políticas de protección social y laboral en el Perú. Una espiral de buenas intenciones, malos resultados y peores respuestas
2021 Hugo Ñopo
The legislation stipulates that, with some exceptions, every worker and their family members are covered by a social safety net that is financed by contributions from employers and workers. This legislation, to a large extent, is violated; and, to another extent, it has exceptions. As a result, most workers do not enjoy contributory social protection. […]
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Políticas de protección social y laboral en el Perú. Una espiral de buenas intenciones, malos resultados y peores respuestas
2021 Hugo Ñopo
The legislation stipulates that, with some exceptions, all workers and their family members are covered by a social safety net that is financed by contributions from employers and workers. This legislation, to a large extent, is violated and to another extent has exceptions. As a result, most workers do not enjoy contributory social protection. The […]
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Guía sobre microfinanzas en América Latina
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
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Measuring the Relative Pay of Latin American School Teachers at the turn of the 20th Century
2014,
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in thirteen Latin-American countries circa 2007. It also analyses the […]
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Diferenciales de ingreso entre trabajadores públicos y privados
2013,
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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Mujer y movilidad social
2013,
En el documento se presenta un conjunto de recomendaciones de política para generar una efectiva igualdad de oportunidades para hombres y mujeres y, de esta forma, mejorar las dinámicas de movilidad social en Colombia. Para esto, inicialmente se explora la evidencia existente sobre la situación de la mujer en la sociedad colombiana y se hace […]
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Evolution of Teachers’ Salaries in Latin America at the Turn of the 20th Century: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
2012,
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper reports the evolution, between circa 1997 and circa 2007, of teachers´ salaries vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations for thirteen Latin-American countries. After controlling […]
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JournalReview of Economics and Statistics
Teaching entrepreneurship: impact of business training on microfinance clients and institutions
2011, Martin Valdivia,
Using a randomized control trial, we measure the marginal impact of adding business training to a Peruvian group lending program for fem
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Using Pseudo‐Panels To Measure Income Mobility In Latin America
2011,
The paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest very […]
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JournalJournal of Pension Economics and Finance
Overcoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs
2010,
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JournalThe Review of Economics and Statistics
Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps
2008,
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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La investigación sobre el mercado laboral peruano: instituciones, capacitación y grupos desfavorecidos
Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú2007Miguel Jaramillo, Juan Jose Diaz,
El objetivo del trabajo es enfocarse en algunos temas centrales para los debates actuales sobre políticas laborales, en los cuales GRADE ha tenido mayor interés y participación. Específicamente, son tres las áreas sobre las que quieren discutir el estado del avance de la investigación, plantear algunos debates y establecer su importancia para la formulación de […]
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Sistemas de innovación tecnológica
Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú2007Juana Kuramoto,
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Gasto público, productividad e ingresos agrarios en el Perú: avances de investigación y resultados empíricos propios
Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú2007Eduardo Zegarra, ,
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Región y nación en los espacios del norte: desarrollos económicos y sociales en fases de transición: extremo Norte Peruano Chico Chileno
Chile-Perú, Perú-Chile: 1820-19202005Miguel Jaramillo, ,
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Union density changes and union effects on firm perfomance in Peru
What difference do unions make?: their impact on productivity and wages in Latin America2005Maximo Torero,
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Guide to microfinance in Latin America
2013Miguel Jaramillo,
The Guide concludes with lessons that may be relevant for other contexts, as well as highlighting key publications and organisations related to microfinance in the region.
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Latin America’s Institutional and Regulatory Innovations for Microfinance Growth
2013Miguel Jaramillo,
This Brief provides an overview to the Latin American experience in regulating MFIs, covering the history of microfinance regulation in the region and the positive effects it has had on the sector’s current performance.
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Expanding microfinance in Latin America’s rural areas
2013Miguel Jaramillo,
This brief begins by discussing microfinance’s impacts in rural areas, presenting evidence on rural poverty as well as on microfinance’s positive effects on consumption and investment in education.
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Latin American Innovations in Microfinance Technology
2013Miguel Jaramillo,
In Latin America, innovations in microfinance come not only from new technology, but by focusing on the people and processes making use of that technology, achieving important advances in scale and reach.
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Learning from CCT evaluations
2012Miguel Jaramillo,
This brief reviews evaluation objectives, key steps to consider in designing and implementing a rigorous CCT evaluation, and describes how evaluations have been used in the region.
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Imaginemos un Perú mejor
1989
Artículos periodísticos escritos por el autor entre 1985 y 1988 para promover la diseminación de un enfoque de largo plazo en el pensamiento de quienes diseñan o ejecutan políticas de desarrollo.
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Excelencia científica en la periferia: actividades científicas e investigación biomédica en el Perú 1890-1950
1989
La actividad científica en el Perú entre 1890 y 1950. Según Cueto, el trabajo científico en nuestro país tiene sus propias reglas no como síntomas de atraso o modernidad sino como parte de su propia cultura.
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Projects
- Income difference between public and private employmentNovember 2011 - February 2012
- Analysis of the Labor Market and Higher Education Offer in PeruSeptember 2011 - December 2012
- Sizing of the Innovation Program for CompetitivenessJune 2011 - September 2011
- Salaries in the public sectorApril 2011 - July 2011
- Preparation of the policy document “Innovation, Science and Technology Policies”October 2010 - December 2010
- Labor component of ‘facilitating businesses’October 2010 - October 2010
- Study about the Innovation System in Dominican RepublicSeptember 2010 - November 2010
- Support in the impact evaluation process of PROJOVVEN and design of the SENEP evaluationAugust 2010 - December 2010
- Exploring factors associated with cognitive abilities of the adult urban population in PeruJune 2010 - September 2010
- Proposal for the design of the Educaempleo System and implementation strategy.May 2010 - July 2010
News
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Labor informality aggravates social gaps in Peru, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 11, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The gaps between formal and informal workers are the main factor behind youth labor inequality. Young people who work in the informal sector earn on average 40% less than those who have a formal job. […] The evidence suggests that it makes sense to invest in improving the first labor experiences of young people”. Miguel Jaramillo, […]
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The improbable transition to formality, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 8, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Two traits are key to characterizing workers who transition from informality to formality: education and age. Greater education increases the probability of entering salaried formality from all labor segments, and more pronounced for the increase in education. high school to high school.” Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, shares recent evidence on mobility between the […]
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Building safer and more sustainable food systems in Peru, by Karine Gatellier (IDS) and Ricardo Fort
July 22, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
The pandemic has aggravated the food insecurity situation of people. In Peru, the most vulnerable are facing great difficulties in accessing food, while food market vendors are also struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Read this Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) story of change to know how the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: “Clear processes are needed for any regulatory reform and a public discussion based more on evidence than on ideological principles”
June 27, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“A first point is that the Ministry establishes a clear position regarding the generation of formal employment. […] A second point is the need to have a stable regulatory framework. Norms cannot be approved without following a minimum public discussion procedure. Another point is what the Ministry can do to make life in formality easier. […]
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Labor market and poverty, by Miguel Jaramillo Baanante
June 12, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The number of people with a formal job was the lowest in almost a decade, 3.78 million people. The combination of low growth in formal employment, growing informality and meager recovery of income in the informal sector condemns us to greater poverty”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, analyzes the panorama of the labor market and poverty […]
Events
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Miguel Jaramillo will be a speaker at the discussion of the Peruvian Society for Labor Law and Social Security on the reactivation of employment
01/06/2021 7:00 am - 8:30 pm Facebook de la SPDTSS Employment, productivity and innovation
Our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo will be one of the speakers at a dialogue on Proposals for the reactivation of employment in Peru, organized by the Peruvian Society for Labor and Social Security Law (SPDTSS). SPEAKERS Miguel Jaramillo (GRADE) Catherine Eyzaguirre (economist, human development specialist) CHAIR Jaime Zavala (former president of the SPDTSS) LIVE BROADCAST Follow the […]
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Miguel Jaramillo joined a REDES webinar on the reactivation of MSMEs and short-term employment
27/05/2021 9:00 pm Facebook de REDES Employment, productivity and innovation
How to regain the momentum of employment and how does that involve micro, small and medium-sized firms? Watch again the participation of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo in a Red de Estudios para el Desarrollo (REDES) webinar on the reactivation of MSMEs and short-term employment.
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Videnza’s book Propuestas del Bicentenario was launched. Miguel Jaramillo is one of the authors
19/05/2021 7:30 pm Facebook de Penguin Perú Employment, productivity and innovation
“We are in the midst of an unprecedented crisis in the recent history of Peru. One of the manifestations of this crisis is the fall in employment. At the end of last year we had a million fewer jobs than a year ago. we had started to reactivate production, we are still far from where […]
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Miguel Jaramillo will be a panelist in the IDEHPUCP webinar on informality and human rights
14/10/2020 10:00 am Evento virtual Employment, productivity and innovation
The Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDEHPUCP) and the Working Group on Business and Human Rights – Voluntary Principles and Guiding Principles (GT) organize the webinar “Informality and human rights: Tracing routes for a common agenda”. With the COVID-19 outbreak and the adoption of measures such as mandatory social isolation to cope, concern around […]
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GRADE celebrates 40 years of foundation on the sidelines of Peru’s bicentennial
01/06/2020 → 30/06/2021 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
When GRADE turned 35 in 2015, we researchers produced a set of research reports on key issues for the country’s development. These works, gathered in the book Research for development in Peru, sought to satisfy the demand for knowledge aimed at fostering a more informed debate on public policy in Peru. In the foreword of the publication, Javier […]
- 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
