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 […]
Publications
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Ser joven en el Perú: educación y trabajo
2018 Ana Paula Franco, Hugo Ñopo
Despite the sustained growth experienced by Peru during the last decade, there are still development indicators that require significant improvements. Among the most urgent, those of the labor market. Where about 80% of the household income is generated, 7 in 10 Peruvians work in informal jobs without any social protection. This situation is even more […]
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Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
2018 Marjorie Chinen, Thomas de Hoop, Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin, Josh Sennett, Julian Mezarina
This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low- and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty-five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi-experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta-synthesis includes findings from […]
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Understanding the Role of the Couple in Key Decisions and Actions of the Female Entrepreneur in Peru
Measuring women’s economic empowerment: Lessons from South America2017 Martin Valdivia
For this study, the author analyzed two variants of the question about the extent to which women evidence agency: women’s participation in making key business decisions and men’s participation in carrying out household chores in urban Peru. The objective of the analysis was to understand in a better way the relationship between women entrepreneurs and their […]
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Los efectos desprotectores de la protección del empleo: el impacto de la reforma del contrato laboral del 2001
2017 Miguel Jaramillo, Julio Almonacid, Luciana de la Flor
Cuatro de cada cinco relaciones laborales en el sector formal de la economía peruana están amparadas en contratos temporales. Esta proporción es groseramente superior a la de cualquier país de la OECD y también bastante mayor a la de cualquiera de los países de nuestra región latinoamericana. El objeto de este estudio es elucidar el rol […]
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How do Latin American migrants in the U.S. stand on schooling premium? What does it reveal about education quality in their home countries?
2017 Daniel Alonso-Soto, Hugo Ñopo
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world’s population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been devised. One simple but powerful idea has been to use the schooling premium for migrant workers in the U.S. (Bratsberg and Terrell 2002). […]
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An evaluation of the peruvian “Youth Labor Training Program” – Projoven
2006Miguel Jaramillo, Juan Jose Diaz,
The goals of the "Youth Labor Training Program" (PROJoven) are to improve employment opportunities of youth in poverty and to promote higher quality of services in the vocational training system.
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La brecha salarial entre los sexos en Chile en 1992-2003 desde una perspectiva de comparaciones emparejadas
2006,
En el documento de trabajo se analiza la evolución de la brecha salarial entre los sexos en Chile durante el período de 1992 a 2003, empleándose el enfoque de descomposición desarrollado en Ñopo (2004). Este enfoque, en el que se descompone la brecha salarial en cuatro elementos aditivos, se hace hincapié en la necesidad de […]
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Social capital and education outcomes in urban and rural Peru
2005Santiago Cueto, Gabriela Guerrero, Juan Leon, , ,
The results of the study confirmed poor educational outcomes for many Peruvian school children. High proportions were unable to master simple tasks and were in a lower school grade
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The role of public infraestructure in market development in rural Peru
2005Javier Escobal,
This Study provides a conceptual framework to study the impact of rural infrastructure investment in market development and in the enhancement of income generating opportunities for the poor in rural Peru.
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Gender and racial discrimination in hiring: a pseudo audit study for three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima
2004, Maximo Torero,
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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Projects
News
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Unpaid Family Work: Informal and no income, by Hugo Ñopo
January 11, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“These people are probably in one of the most beautiful forms of cooperation and solidarity, but also in one of the most precarious working conditions. Is there anything more precarious than a zero-income labor informality?” Our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo writes in Foco Economico about who and where are unpaid family workers in Peru. Gathering the annual […]
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A victory of the agrarian workers?, by Miguel Jaramillo
December 9, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The most critical problem in the labor markets in our country, agricultural or in other sectors, is informality. Policies that want to favor workers should focus on this problem.” The new op-ed of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo for El Comercio addresses the repealed labor regime of the Agrarian Promotion Law.
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Lorena Alcázar joined a REDES podcast about the drama of the “ninis” in Peru
December 7, 2020 Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
“The vulnerability of young people in the context of a pandemic is usually associated only with the ‘NEETs’, but in reality the problem is more complex and heterogeneous. There are almost a third of women who, in most cases, are dedicated to maternity or domestic work “. Our senior researcher Lorena Alcazar joined the fifth episode of ‘Hablemos […]
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Miguel Jaramillo in RPP Noticias: Young people face informality and unemployment in the labor market
November 23, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“It is very difficult to think of a mechanism to cover these episodes of high unemployment, precarious or informal labor insertion, because we do not have well-established social protection systems that do not depend on employment status.” Our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo spoke with the journalist Patricia del Río of Radio Programa del Perú Noticias about […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in El Comercio: Young people face informality and unemployment in the labor market
November 22, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The probability that a young person reachs a formal job is only 15%, which means that more than 80% of young people have an informal job.” Regarding the recent figures published by the National Institute of Statistics and Information (INEI) for the national urban area, Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke with El Comercio about the […]
Events
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Innovation for promoting financial inclusion: new evidence and research and policy agenda
30/11/2016 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Employment, productivity and innovation
To share the findings of new studies on financial inclusion and education in Peru and to analyze its implications in the design of policies linked to a Financial Inclusion National Strategy. This is the main objective of the “Innovation for promoting financial inclusion: new evidence and research and policy agenda” Workshop on Wednesday, November 30 […]
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GRADE’s researchers are speakers and panelists at CIES XXVII Research Annual Seminar 2016
23/11/2016 → 24/11/2016 Hotel Meliá (Av. Salaverry 2599, San Isidro) Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
Several of our researchers are speakers and panelists at the CIES XXVII Research Annual Seminar 2016, hold by Economic and Social Research Consortium (CIES), from 22 to 24, November. The meeting brings together researchers from the economic, social and environment sciences, government officials, entrepreneurs, international cooperation and civic society agents around fourteen academic events: thematic research tables and […]
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Hugo Ñopo joins the release of CAF Report on Economics and Development 2016
24/10/2016 8:20 am - 11:00 am Auditorio Juan Julio Wicht de la Universidad del Pacífico (Jr. Sánchez Cerro 2121, Jesús María) Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, discussed the abilities as pillars for human capital and development, as part of the release of CAF Report on Economics and Development 2016. The event, which addressed “Abilities for work and life: family, environment and labor world inputs”, took place on October 24th at Universidad del Pacífico. Also joined the panel: Jaime Saavedra, Minister of Education; Cayetana […]
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Hugo Ñopo will discuss on the relevance of saving, at the III Asbanc National Forum on Education and Financial Inclusion
21/10/2016 11:00 am Employment, productivity and innovation
The III National Forum on Education and Finance Inclusion, held by Asbanc on October 20 and 21, aims to share with new authorities proposals from private institutions on the priorities of the National Financial Inclusion Strategy for the next five years and to reach consensus on the following steps on the way to the National Financial Inclusion Plan. On […]
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Seminario “Diálogo entre investigación y políticas públicas. Retos del desarrollo en el Perú de cara al bicentenario”
26/09/2016 → 27/09/2016 9:30 am - 6:00 pm Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
El lunes 26 de septiembre, a las 9:30 a.m., GRADE inaugura el seminario “Diálogo entre investigación y políticas públicas. Retos del desarrollo en el Perú de cara al bicentenario” con la presentación del Vicepresidente de Sectores y Conocimiento del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. La sesión inaugural será transmitida en vivo. En décadas recientes, el Perú ha […]
- 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