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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The coronavirus pandemic and its challenges to women’s work in Latin America
2020 Diana Gutiérrez, Guillermina Martin, Hugo Ñopo
The coronavirus pandemic has spread throughout the world and Latin America has not been exempt from its health, economic and social impacts. The economic shutdown, as a result of a combination of stringent measures (self-quarantines, mandatory lockdowns, limited capacity in shops, factories and offices, border closures, etc.), is having a profound economic and social impact. […]
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El coronavirus y los retos para el trabajo de las mujeres en América Latina
2020 Diana Gutiérrez, Guillermina Martin, Hugo Ñopo
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sudden economic shutdown. How has this situation affected the work of women in Latin America? The answer to this question demands a policy focus on the differentiated impacts between women and men. With this, it is necessary to avoid generalized formulas that eventually deepen gender gaps. This document explores […]
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El Coronavirus y los retos para el trabajo de las mujeres en América Latina
2020 Diana Gutierrez, Guillermina Martin, Hugo Ñopo
The Coronavirus pandemic has spread throughout the world and Latin America has not escaped its health, economic and social impacts. The economic strike resulting from a combination of astringent measures (self-quarantines, mandatory quarantines, limited capacity of people in commercial premises, factories and offices, border closures, etc.), is generating profound economic and social impacts. In the […]
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Journaleconomíaunam
The impact of Covid-19 on the Peruvian economy
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
Potential impacts on labor incomes of Peruvian homes are analyzed. Although it is still uncertain the magnitude and duration of the economic shock those homes deal with, our approach focus attention on this research question: how prepared are the Peruvian homes for shocks as the one they are dealing with these days? What impacts are […]
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Poor education and precarious jobs in Peru: Understanding who is left behind and why
2020 Lorena Alcazar, Micaela Bullard, Maria Balarin
Given the large inequalities in Peru, fulfilling the ’leave no one behind’ UN 2030 Agenda commitment might become the country’s largest challenge to SDG implementation. In light of this, understanding who is left behind, and why, gains particular importance. This study uses a mixed methodological approach to provide a baseline of the left behind in […]
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The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006
2010
The authors surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matchingcomparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capitalcharacteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the first to the second period but remained almost unchanged between the second and […]
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Gender Earnings Gaps in the Caribbean: Evidence from Barbados and Jamaica
2010,
The authors analyzes gender earnings gaps in Barbados and Jamaica, using a matching comparisons approach. In both countries, as in most of the Caribbean region, females’ educational achievement is higher than that of males. Nonetheless, males’ earnings surpass those of their female peers. Depending on the set of control characteristics, males’ earnings surpass those of […]
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Pobreza e impactos heterogéneos de las políticas activas del empleo juvenil: el caso de PROJOVEN en el Perú
2009Miguel Jaramillo,
Análisis de la relación entre la pobreza de los hogares y los impactos de políticas activas de promoción del empleo en el Perú, en parti
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Gender Wage Gaps in Central American Countries: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Approach
2009,
The authors compares gender wage gaps for Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s using the non-parametric matching methodology introduced by Ñopo (2008), which allows an analysis not only of average gaps but also their distributions. While a simple comparison of average wages would suggest small or even negative […]
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New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America
2009,
The paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country heterogeneity. The unexplained pay gap is higher among older, informal and self-employed workers and […]
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JournalThe IUP Journal of Applied Economics
Working Within Confines: Occupational Segregation By Sex For Three Latin American Countries
2005,
The paper assesses the evolution of occupational segregation by sex using comparable data sets for Costa Rica, Ecuador and Uruguay over the 1989-1997 period. The authors estimate segregation indices using two-digit occupational categories for the entire employed labor force and also for sub-samples with different levels of educational attainment. Using a re-sampling technique, the authors estimate […]
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The Gender Wage Gap in Peru 1986-2000: Evidence from a Matching Comparisons Approach
2004,
Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), the author analyze the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru from 1986 to 2000. The advantage of such methodology is two-fold. First, it recognizes that the supports of observable characteristics distributions differ substantially. Second, it provides deeper insights regarding the distribution of the unexplained gender differences […]
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JournalBoletín Cinterfor: Boletín Técnico Interamericano de Formación Profesional
El Programa de Capacitación Laboral Juvenil (ProJoven)
2000,
El artículo que aquí se presenta originalmente formaba pate de la publicación "Exclusión y oportunidad. Jóvenes urbanos y su inserción en el mercado de trabajo y en el mercado de capacitación".
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JournalSocialismo y participación
El mercado laboral peruano: situación actual y opciones para los próximos años
2000,
En el documento se analiza la situación actual del mercado de trabajo peruano y se analizan detalladamente las diferentes propuestas existentes en torno al problema del empleo en el país.
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JournalDesarrollo productivo
El mercado de tierras en el Peru: análisis institucional y económico
1999Eduardo Zegarra,
En el primer volumen se analizan de manera sistemática algunos de los elementos conformantes del "contexto institucional" en que funciona el mercado de tierras en el Perú.
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El impacto de la apertura al comercio internacional sobre la economía regional del extremo norte peruano, 1780-1877
Estado y mercado en la historia del Perú2002Miguel Jaramillo,
Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
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La flexibilización del mercado laboral
La reforma incompleta: rescatando los noventa2000
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Determinants of embodied technology transfer from stars to firms
Knowledge transfer in biotechnology in Japan: comparative institutional context and commercial success2000, , Maximo Torero,
Applying a model of job mobility, we explain the probability that a previously untied academic star will start working with a firm as a function of measures of the star's scientific quality, factors affecting trial frequency and the scientists' reservation wage, and interfering university offers.
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Determinantes de las decisiones de trabajo en tareas no agropecuarias dentro de la finca en el Perú
Pobreza y economía social: análisis de una encuesta (ENNIV-1997)1999Javier Escobal, Jorge Aguero,
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Los retornos a la educación y a la experiencia en el Perú, 1985-1997
Pobreza y economía social: análisis de una encuesta (ENNIV-1997)1999,
En este artículo se documentan los cambios observados en la estructura de ingresos entre 1985 y 1997.
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Minería hoy / Hacia una reforma integral de la capacitación
2007Juana Kuramoto, Miguel Jaramillo,
Minería hoy: la bonanza que no hay que desperdiciar / Hacia una reforma integral de la capacitación.
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Políticas para mejorar el desempeño del mercado laboral / Las concesiones de infraestructura en el sector portuario
2005Miguel Jaramillo, Lorena Alcazar,
Políticas para mejorar el desempeño del mercado laboral / Las concesiones de infraestructura en el sector portuario: un balance de la experiencia de Matarani.
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Reforma del agua y competitividad / Las diferencias de género en los mercados de trabajo peruano
2005Eduardo Zegarra, ,
Reforma del agua y competitividad: la necesidad de una nueva estrategia / Las diferencias de género en los mercados de trabajo peruano.
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El agro peruano en un nuevo partidor / Angustias laborales en el Perú de hoy
2000Javier Escobal,
El agro peruano en un nuevo partidor / Angustias laborales en el Perú de hoy.
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Projects
- El Mercado, el Estado y la dinámica de la desigualdadJuly 2007
- Estudio panel para la evaluación de impacto del proceso de simplificación administrativa en las empresas en Lima cercadoJune 2007
- 2006 Fondoempleo, profile evaluationAugust 2006
- Las Políticas de Desarrollo de Habilidades en el Perú: el rol de los actores nacionales e internacionalesJuly 2006
- Impacto de Programa de MicrocréditosMay 2006
- Consultoría para promover las potencialidades del circuito turístico nororiental del Perú – CTN PerúApril 2006
- Gender opportunities and constraints to integrating information and communication technologies in micro and small enterprisesJanuary 2006
- Plan Nacional de Fomento de Trabajo Decente y la Competitividad EmpresarialSeptember 2005
- Task Force of Technological Innovation for the National Strategy for CompetitivenessAugust 2005
- Evaluación de Impacto del Programa de Capacitación Laboral Juvenil ProJovenFebruary 2005
News
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hitting the AFP like piñatas, by Hugo Ñopo
April 20, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The private pension system was born with an original sin: trying to turn the right to a decent retirement into a commodity with high commissions”. Read the new weekly column by Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, for Jugo de Caigua about the new retirement of AFP (Pension Fund Administrators) approved by the Economy Commission of our […]
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Miguel Jaramillo in Sudaca Perú: What is going on in the labour sector?
April 19, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“What this bill does is make formal hiring more expensive. It will be more difficult for the most productive companies to hire more workers. There’s not much to look forward to in terms of productivity gains. The only beneficiaries of this code are workers who have a permanent contract and, particularly, unionized workers. [However] unionization […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Informalities, margins and dimensions, by Hugo Ñopo
April 16, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“When we say that informality in the country reaches 72% of workers, we are adding all those who do not contribute to health or pensions, putting very different realities in the same bag. One part of this informality is combated with inspection, another Some (in fact, the vast majority) do not. Making the distinctions is […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in Bloomberg Línea: “The probability of a young person getting a formal job would be even more difficult”
April 14, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The probability of a young person getting a formal job, which is already ridiculously low, would be even more difficult. If the labor policy announcements are oriented towards the fact that it will cost more to fire, that temporary contracts are limited, how do you want firms hire more? If the government really wants to […]
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Is the increase in the minimum wage an impromptu decision? Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion
April 10, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
Is the increase in the minimum wage an impromptu decision? According to Miguel Jaramillo, principal investigator at GRADE, “it is very difficult to justify this type of measure in the current context of depressed formal employment and growing informal employment. The decision is opportunistic, not technical.” Read his full comment in La República.
Events
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Lorena Alcazar was a panelist at Gender Matters: COVID-19 and the labour market in the Global South Webinar
28/05/2020 10:00 am - 11:00 am Evento online Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
As with other pandemics in recent history, women are particularly vulnerable. COVID-19 has further aggravated structural inequalities that systematically disadvantage women, specifically in the economic system. Economically, women are disproportionately impacted by the financial effects of the pandemic as the majority work in low-paid or informal jobs with few social protections. Around the globe, 740 […]
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Miguel Jaramillo was a panelist at the fourth CADEx “New work framework in health emergency”
21/04/2020 5:00 pm Evento online Employment, productivity and innovation
IPAE held the fourth CADEx “A new labor framework on the sidelines of a health emergency”. Our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, was a panelist together with Juan Carlos Requejo, vice-Minister of Labor at the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion, and Diego Macera, general general at the Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE).
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Lorena Alcázar and Miguel Jaramillo joined the First Meeting Think Tanks and COVID-19 in Latin America
21/04/2020 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Evento online Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
Researchers and other thinktankers joined yesterday the First Meeting Think Tanks & COVID-19 in Latin America. The event was held by Southern Voice and On Think Tanks. Our senior researchers Lorena Alcázar and Miguel Jaramillo were discussants in the parallel sessions on social and economic issues. The purpose of the meeting was to exchange diagnoses and policy recommendations that may […]
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Martín Valdivia is a speaker at the 1st Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network
13/12/2019 4:00 am - 6:00 am Auditorium Ivan Pictet, Maison de la paix, Geneva Employment, productivity and innovation, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
Our Senior Researcher, Martín Valdivia, is a speaker at the 1st Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network, on December 12th and 13th in Geneva, Switzerland. The theme of the conference is inclusion. Organizers want to understand who benefits from investments in private enterprises and what can be done better, the characteristics of inclusive firms, […]
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2030 Agenda: Promoting Global South research within international debates
26/11/2019 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Live stream Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
On Tuesday, November 26, the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) and Southern Voice will discuss the challenges and opportunities to strengthen the participation of public policy experts and researchers from the Global South in international development debates. Southern Voice is a network of more than 50 think tanks from countries in Africa, Latin […]
- 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
