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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Radio and video as a means for financial education in rural households in Peru
Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America2020 Alberto Chong, , Martin Valdivia
This chapter analyzes the impact of a financial literacy training of a Peruvian microfinance institution, which is delivered by credit officers in monthly sessions with the support of video and radio materials.
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Experiencias de convivencia, matrimonio y maternidad/paternidad en adolescentes y jóvenes peruanos. Policy brief
2019 Vanessa Rojas,
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Contratos laborales en el Perú: dinámica y determinantes
2019 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
Beyond the commonly explored formality / informality binomial, this study helps to understand the duality of the formal labor market in Peru, determined by the type of contract used. It is found that 70% of the formal work initiated between 2012 and 2016 involved a temporary contract; 19%, one for an indeterminate period; and the […]
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Habilidades, formación para el trabajo y subempleo juvenil: un enfoque de ciclo de vida
2019 Alan Sanchez
This study uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives study to establish which are the most important aspects that predict access to job formation and the labour market at age 22. Results highlight the role of cognitive skills, socio-emotional competencies, and the socio-economic level of the household to explain access to higher education institutions and […]
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¿Son los contratos temporales un peldaño hacia un contrato por tiempo indeterminado?
2019 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
During the last decades, the use of fixed-term contracts has grown around the world, a phenomenon that has gone hand in hand with reductions in the probability of obtaining a contract for an indeterminate period of time. Fixed-term contracts could be used as a means to assess the skills of new workers before they are […]
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Gender Segregation in the Workplace and Wage Gaps: Evidence from Urban Mexico 1994-2004
2008,
The authors analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation and wage gaps. The results suggest that the complete elimination of hierarchical segregation would reduce the observed gender wage gaps […]
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The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparisons Perspective
2007,
The paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Chile during the period 1992 to 2003 using the decomposition approach developed in Ñopo (2004). This approach, which decomposes the wage gap into four additive elements, stresses the need for comparisons inside the common support for the distributions of observable characteristics of individuals. Also, […]
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Becoming an Entrepreneur
2007,
Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametric matching estimator the paper alleviates problems of selection bias (on observable and unobservable traits) and creates the appropriate counterfactuals of interest. The […]
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Entrenamiento ocupacional para reducir la segregación de género: El impacto de Projoven
2007,
El trabajo trata la evaluación de ProJoven, el programa de capacitación para el trabajo de jóvenes en de Perú y muestra las diferencias considerables que hay en sus efectos entre hombres y mujeres. Dieciocho meses después de haber participado en el programa, el empleo entre las mujeres mejoró aproximadamente en 15% (en el caso de […]
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Usando pseudopaneles para medir la movilidad del ingreso en América
2007,
En el trabajo se presenta una panorámica comparada de los patrones de movilidad en 14 países latinoamericanos entre 1992 y 2003. Se presenta un conjunto de estimadores de la idea tradicional de movilidad del ingreso, así como en cuanto a la movilidad alrededor de los límites entre la pobreza extrema y la pobreza moderada. Los […]
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Calificación, salarios y distribución del ingreso en un contexto de ajuste estructural
Empleo y distribución del ingreso en América Latina : ¿hemos avanzado?.1997
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Acceso al crédito en las economías rurales: diferencias entre el sector formal e informal en el Perú
Perú: el problema agrario en debate - SEPIA VI1996Martin Valdivia, ,
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Organización y financiamiento del sistema ciencia-tecnología-innovación: una experiencia de seguimiento regional
Financiamiento sostenido para la investigación y el desarrollo tecnológico en Iberoamérica -
Regional databases and S&T development indicators problems, achievements and utilization of grade’s Latin American database
Les indicateurs de science pour les pays en developpment: science indicators for developing countries1992Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui,
GRADE has accumulated a large volume of S&T and socio-economic indicators gathered in a database. It purpose is to maintain updated statistical data which can be used to monitor the evolution of scientific production in the region.
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Projects
News
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Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Public policies, economic recovery and structural weaknesses, by Miguel Jaramillo
January 10, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“A first conclusion of this analysis is that, although public investment can be key to reviving economic growth, it does not go very far when it comes to addressing the structural challenges that arise in the country. In contrast, public spending on health and other social sectors can do it. ” Read the new op-ed […]
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Miguel Jaramillo shared his thoughts in Forbes Peru about the increase in the minimum wage announced by Pedro Castillo
November 11, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The recovery of employment has basically been due to the informalization of labor relations. Formal employment is stagnant. Raising the minimum wage is not understanding what the problem in the economy is”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, shared his opinion at Forbes Peru about the economic effects of President Castillo’s announcement.
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo in TV Peru: A balance of the first 100 days of government
November 11, 2021 Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
What has been achieved and what is pending in the economy in the first 100 days of government? According to Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researche at GRADE, although in the macro and in health we are doing well, in education, “it should be enormously alarming that today our students are not returning to the classroom in a majority number”. […]
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Studies by GRADE researchers on the minimum wage are quoted by IPE via El Comercio
October 18, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
The Peruvian Institute of Economics explains why the results found by David Card, 2021 Nobel Laureate in Economics —that a minimum wage increase does not necessarily generate unemployment— would not be applicable for Peru. In the article, he quotes the work of our senior researchers Alan Sánchez, Miguel Jaramillo, and Hugo Ñopo.
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Towards a more functional labor market, by Paola del Carpio and Miguel Jaramillo
September 26, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Although our norms point to salaried relationships indefinitely, what we have is a labor market with predominantly informal relationships, which affect more than 9 million Peruvians. In addition, within formality, short-term relationships predominate. Informality is a determining problem to grow with resilience”. Read the recent op-ed by Paola del Carpio (REDES) and Miguel Jaramillo (GRADE) vía […]
Events
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GRADE and CAF held a discussion on the findings of the book Institutions for Productivity
11/07/2019 9:00 am - 11:00 am Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Employment, productivity and innovation
The low prices of feedstocks in the international market have returned, together with an uncertain environment of “commercial wars”. This trend has highlighted the need to redouble efforts to promote a sustained increase in productivity as a path towards sustainable economic growth that will allow the level of welfare of the most developed nations to […]
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Lorena Alcázar shared the findings of her Southern Voice study on those left behind in SDG 4 and SDG 8 in Peru
22/04/2019 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Dag Hammarskjold 3477, Auditorio Enrique V. Iglesias, Santiago, Chile Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
Southern Voice, the United Nations Foundation and Espacio Público held a panel on the synergies between Sustainable Development Goal 8 (decent employment) and Sustainable Development Goal 4 (quality education) and its implications in Latin America. Both goals are part of the High-Level Policy Forum 2019 review. In the event, the findings of the mismatch between the education […]
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Martín Valdivia will be a speaker at the opening of the 2019 World Savings Week
25/03/2019 11:20 am - 11:40 am Employment, productivity and innovation
Our senior researcher, Martín Valdivia, will be one of the speakers at the opening conference of the 2019 World Savings Week, an international initiative of Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI), held in Peru by the Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP in Peru (SBS). The event, from March 25 to 31, brings together various […]
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Manuel Glave joined the launch of the Work 4 Progress program in Peru
28/11/2018 Universidad Antonio Ruiz De Montoya (Av. Paso de los Andes 970, Pueblo Libre) Rural development and agriculture, Employment, productivity and innovation
Our senior researcher, Manuel Glave, joined the launch of the Work 4 Progress program in our country. The theme of th event was “The work we want: Social innovation in Peru”. The initiative aims to achieve the improvement of the individual and familiar income of women and young people of the Andean and Amazonian indigenous rural people through […]
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III Forum Dialogues for Development: Hugo Ñopo will speak about social protection and labor productivity
04/09/2018 11:30 am - 1:10 pm Swissotel Lima Employment, productivity and innovation
Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, will be one of the speakers at the III Forum Dialogues for Development, held by the National Confederation of Private Business Institutions (Confiep) and Seminarium. Dialogue for Development is an initiative that aims to gather the business community, as well as authorities and other opinion leaders on topics of great relevance to the development […]
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