Publications of Employment, productivity and innovation
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Las políticas para el financiamiento de las Pymes en el Perú
The objective of this paper is to take stock of the policies implemented and the performance of the sector, identifying the main challenges and suggesting policies to address them. It finds that policies during the present decade have followed the lines implemented in the 1990s, where private agents have played the central role. The modifications […]
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Políticas para mejorar el desempeño del mercado laboral / Las concesiones de infraestructura en el sector portuario
Policies to improve labour market performance by Miguel Jaramillo. Infrastructure concessions in the port sector: an assessment of the Matarani experience by Lorena Alcázar.
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Reforma del agua y competitividad / Las diferencias de género en los mercados de trabajo peruano
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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Working Within Confines: Occupational Segregation By Sex For Three Latin American Countries
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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Regulación del mercado laboral en Perú
This paper analyzes the two main mechanisms used in labor market regulation. First, employment protection measures are discussed. These constitute the set of restrictions on the hiring and firing of workers and include compensation rules, dismissal procedures, contract modalities, among others. Within this first group, the paper will focus on the analysis of compensation for […]
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Diferencias en el acceso de las mujeres al microcrédito en el Perú e impacto de la tenencia del título de propiedad
El presente estudio pretende medir el acceso de las mujeres al microcrédito en el Perú. Asimismo, busca examinar el vínculo entre la distribución por género de los derechos de propiedad y las limitaciones en el acceso de las mujeres peruanas al crédito.
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Gender and racial discrimination in hiring: a pseudo audit study for three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima
We analyze gender and racial diferences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: salespersons, secretaries and (accounting and administrative) assistants.
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Matching as a tool to decompose wage gaps
In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages.
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Ethnicity and earnings in urban Peru
The relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru. Our approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its several dimensions: mother tongue, parental background, religion, migration events and race.
