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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COVID-19 y shock externo. Impactos económicos y opciones de política en el Perú
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
América Latina sufre en este momento dos shocks, independientes, pero relacionados: el impacto del COVID-19 y el shock de precios de materias primas. El Perú, argumentamos, es un caso en el que el impacto más fuerte proviene de la epidemia. El Perú fue el primer caso de América Latina que reaccionó frente al coronavirus implementado […]
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Percepciones y expectativas de docentes y familias rurales sobre las escuelas multigrado
2020 Alvaro Ordoñez
El objetivo de este artículo es dar a conocer las percepciones y expectativas que docentes, madres y padres de familia tienen sobre la escuela rural multigrado. Este trabajo forma parte de un estudio realizado por el proyecto CREER, que será publicado próximamente.
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Covid-19 y el shock externo: Impactos económicos y opciones de política en el Perú
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
Latinoamérica sufre al momento dos shocks, independientes pero relacionados, el impacto del Covid-19 y el shock de precios de materias primas. Perú es un caso en el que el impacto más fuerte proviene de la epidemia. Perú fue el primer país de América Latina en reaccionar con medidas sanitarias y económicas frente al coronavirus. El […]
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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, Dean Karlan, 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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The Gender Wage Gap in Peru 1986-2000: Evidence from a Matching Comparisons Approach
2009,
Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), the paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru from 1986 to 2000. This methodology has two advantages. 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 in earnings. […]
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Business training for microfinance clients: how it matters and for whom?
2008Martin Valdivia, Dean Karlan,
We mesure the impact of a business training program for female microentrepreneur clients of a group banking program in Peru. Using the credit with education model, we assigned clients randomly to either treatment or control groups.
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Etnicidad y acumulación de capital humano en México Urbano
2008,
Se analiza la movilidad social y la acumulación de capital humano entre minorías étnicas en zonas urbanas de México, se exploran los cambios en el logro académico y la situación en el mercado laboral y se emplean datos de panel provenientes de la Encuesta sobre la Vida de la Familia Mexicana (MFxLS). Los resultados apuntan […]
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Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Guatemala from a Matching Comparisons Perspective
2008,
The paper analyzes gender and ethnic wage gaps in Guatemala for the period 2000-2006, applying a matching comparisons technique, finding pronounced wage gaps along both gender and ethnic dimensions, the latter being greater. Wage gaps in Guatemala are partially explained by differences in human capital characteristics, especially education, between indigenous and non-indigenous and males and […]
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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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JournalReformas económicas
Desigualdad del ingreso y del gasto en el Perú antes y después de las reformas estructurales
1999Juan Jose Diaz,
Con información de encuestas de hogares, se encuentra que la desigualdad del ingreso se redujo en el periodo posterior al inicio de las reformas estructurales en 1991, continuando una tendencia que se observa desde 1971.
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JournalPunto de equilibrio
La Información en el mercado laboral y el rol del Estado
1998Miguel Jaramillo,
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JournalBoletín de Opinión
El trabajo asalariado en las economías rurales del Perú
1998Martin Valdivia,
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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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The determinants of labor allocation between farm and off-farm activities in rural Peru
International Symposium Proceedings, (15º: 1998 Nov. 29-Dec. 4: Pretoria, South Africa)1999Javier Escobal, , Jorge Aguero,
This document shows that the importance for the Peruvian rural sector of activities that go beyond on/farm agricultural tasks has increased substantially, at least during the last decade.
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Los costos laborales en el Perú
Inseguridad laboral y competitividad: modalidades de contratación1999,
Estimación de los costos laborales con el concepto de costo laboral efectivo, que toma no solo la legislación laboral sino la reacción de los empleadores ante diferentes alternativas de contratación.
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Las barras bravas y la ausencia del gol: entre comandos y trincheras
¿Nacidos para ser salvajes?: iIdentidad y violencia juvenil en los 901998Martín Benavides, ,
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A case study of Manthoc, the movement of working children in Peru
Old enough to work, old enough to have a say1998,
Principios de autonomía de Manthoc como organización, su afán por la representación de los niños, su orientación hacia el conjunto de niños parte de los movimientos de NATs e implementación de una metodología.
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Projects
News
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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 […]
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Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19, Reference
Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts in RPP Noticias on the recovery of employment after the crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic
September 24, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
According to Miguel Jaramillo, currently informal employees have income 20% lower than what they registered before the pandemic. Read the article from RPP Noticias with the opinion of our Senior Researcher on the recovery of employment after the crisis.
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Recovery of production and informalization of employment, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 19, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The heterogeneous responses to the ‘shock’ that the labor market has received have revealed a clear and growing trend towards informalization at the same time as a relative decline in wage relationships”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the heterogeneous recovery of the labor market after the impact of the pandemic on the Peruvian […]
Events
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Upcoming webinar. Synergies between Education and Employment: who is being left behind and what can be done about it?
27/09/2019 10:00 am - 11:00 am Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
On September 27, Southern Voice, GRADE and ARU Foundation will host a webinar to discuss the synergies between education and employment. It will focus on the lessons that can be drawn from the Southern Voice’s “State of the SDGs” cases studies of Bolivia and Peru. The presentations will be addressed by Lorena Alcázar, Senior Researcher […]
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GRADE’s researchers at the 2019 annual congress of the Peruvian Economic Association
08/08/2019 → 09/08/2019 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Universidad del Pacífico (Av. General Salaverry 2020, Jesús María) Rural development and agriculture, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
On August 8-9, our researchers will join the 2019 annual congress of the Peruvian Economic Association (APE), coorganized with the University of the Pacific. In addition, Southern Voice, of which we are members and host organization, will organize a panel on the precariousness of education and employment in Peru and Bolivia. The event is part of various activities carried […]
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Lorena Alcazar presented her Southern Voice’s State of the SDG study on the excluded youth in Peru at the 2019 UN High Level Political Forum
12/07/2019 10:00 am - 11:00 am Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, Nueva York, Estados Unidos Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
Lorena Alcázar, Senior Researcher at GRADE, presented her Southern Voice’s State of the Sustainable Development Goals study, “Poor education and precarious jobs: excluded youth in Peru”, as part of the 2019 United Nations High-level Political Forum (HLPF 2019) on sustainable development. The international event takes place from 9 to 18 July in New York, United […]
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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 […]
- 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