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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La importancia de las prácticas preprofesionales en la transición al empleo. Un estudio en las ciudades capitales del Perú
2018 Luciana de la Flor
El desempleo profesional y el subempleo son problemas que afectan a miles de peruanos. Su incidencia generalmente se atribuye a un desajuste entre la demanda y la oferta de trabajo. La educación universitaria no garantiza un trabajo adecuado al nivel académico obtenido. Las prácticas preprofesionales son una intervención de bajo costo y alto impacto para […]
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JournalJournal of International Development
Health Impacts of a Public–Private Partnership Rural Roads Maintenance Programme
2018 Alberto Chong, Martin Valdivia
The authors provide evidence of health impacts of a public-private rural roads maintenance programme in Peru, which is characterized by a contracting mechanism that employs small local firms. Using a difference‐in‐differences approach, they find that improved roads connectivity leads to positive health externalities.
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Pathways to Formalization: Going Beyond the Formality Dichotomy
2018 Juan Jose Diaz, Juan Chacaltana, Jamele Rigolini, Claudia Ruíz
Too often, academics and policy makers interpret formality as a binary choice and formalization as an irreversible process. Yet, formalization has many facets and shades on the business and labor fronts, and firms may not be able or willing to formalize all at once. This paper explores the joint process of business and labor formalization, […]
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Pathways to formalization: going beyond the formality dichotomy
2018 Juan Jose Diaz, Juan Chacaltana, Jamele Rigolini, Claudia Ruíz
Too often, academics and policy makers interpret formality as a binary choice and formalization as an irreversible process. Yet, formalization has many facets and shades on the business and labor fronts, and firms may not be able or willing to formalize all at once. This paper explores the joint process of business and labor formalization, […]
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No longer children: What do Young Lives children do when they grow up?
2018 Marta Favara, Grace Chang, Alan Sanchez
No longer children: What do Young Lives children do when they grow up? is a Young Lives research report, synthesising research from the past two survey rounds (in 2013 and 2016) to reflect on how the experience of poverty early in life affects future opportunities, documenting children and young people’s trajectories from school into post-secondary […]
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Brechas salariales por género y etnicidad en Guatemala desde una perspectiva de comparaciones emparejadas
2007,
Los autores analizan las brechas salariales atribuibles al sexo y la etnicidad en Guatemala entre 2000 y 2006. Se hallan brechas salariales pronunciadas a lo largo tanto de dimensiones sexuales como étnicas. Las brechas salariales en Guatemala obedecen parcialmente a diferencias de características del capital humano, especialmente educación, entre grupos indígenas y no indígenas, y […]
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Ethnic and Gender Wage Gaps in Ecuador
2009,
Returns to labor for workers with similar endowments of productive characteristics in Ecuador are influenced by two characteristics that, arguably, should play no role on the determination of wages: gender and ethnicity. The authors analyzes wage gaps due to both characteristics in Ecuador for the period 2003-2007, applying a matching comparisons technique developed in Ñopo […]
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Traditional Excluding Forces: A Review of the Quantitative Literature on the Economic Situation of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Descendants, and People Living with Disability
2007,
Unequal income distribution in Latin America and the Caribbean is linked to unequal distributions of (human and physical) assets and differential access to markets and services. These circumstances, and the accompanying social tensions, need to be understood in terms of traditional fragmenting forces; the sectors of the population who experience unfavorable outcomes are also recognized […]
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Occupational Training to Reduce Gender Segregation: The Impacts of ProJoven
2007,
The paper discusses program evaluation for ProJoven, the Peruvian youth labor training program. Complementing detailed fieldwork, the econometric work implements a two-stage matching procedure on propensity scores, gender and labor income. This allows identification of differentiated program impacts on males and females and attacks the problem of Ashenfelter’s Dips. The evaluation shows substantial differences in […]
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¿Cómo se ajusta el mercado de trabajo ante cambios en el salario mínimo en el Perú?: una evaluación de la experiencia de la última década
2006Miguel Jaramillo,
Este estudio describe el marco institucional del salario mínimo en el mercado laboral peruano y analiza su relación con la distribución de los ingresos laborales para diferentes grupos del mercado laboral.
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Projects
News
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo shared his thoughts on the challenges facing the country despite the economy has overcome the recession
August 24, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
‘It is magnificent that the GDP is rebounding. But how do people benefit from that recovery when the employment and salary figures are not flattering? In these two indicators we are not close to pre-pandemic levels.’ Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, shared his opinion on the challenges due to the political turbulence and the consequences of the pandemic facing […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo analyzes the new Yanapay bonus in RPP Noticias
August 21, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“(The bonus) it is a stimulus to demand, but it is necessary to complement a stimulus to production. The Government has spoken of the creation of a million jobs, but the number is not so relevant, but rather to ask what productivity those jobs are going to have. Who in the economy is the one […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
RPP Noticias highlights Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion about the recovery of employment rates
August 10, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“I would expect that, under an estimated GDP growth of 3% for 2022, which is optimistic (since some predict that GDP could fall), the increase in formal employment will be close to zero (0%), unless the Ministerial Cabinet gives signs of confidence to private investment “. Read the opinion of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo on […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Perú Debate: Miguel Jaramillo talked with Gustavo Yamada about employment and labor informality
June 17, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Going towards a system where companies contract formally and can live in formality in a simpler way is clearly the route to follow. In addition, social protection is an element that the population is demanding and that would allow, under a scheme less burdened towards the labor market, that companies have a higher level of […]
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GRADE and Southern Voice join the CORE Initiative COVID-19 Responses for Equity
June 10, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
GRADE join CORE COVID-19 Responses for Equity, an initiative gathering 21 projects from 42 countries that seeks to understand the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, improve existing responses, and generate better policy options for recovery. Together with Southern Voice, our centre takes part with a project that focuses on how to achieve sustainable and gender inclusive improvements in food […]
Events
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GRADE on live, Publication Presentation
Presentación: Desarrollo en Las Américas, edición 2017: Aprender Mejor: Políticas Públicas para el Desarrollo de Habilidades
05/10/2017 9:00 am - 11:00 am Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
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Presentaciones de investigadores de GRADE en el V Congreso Anual de la Asociación Peruana de Economía APE 2017
11/08/2017 → 12/08/2017 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Universidad de Lima Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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Ricardo Fort joined The Safe & Inclusive Cities Exchange 2017, funded by IDRC and DFID, in Nairobi
29/05/2017 5:00 am Radisson Blu Hotel - Nairobi, Kenya Employment, productivity and innovation, Urbanization and sustainable cities
Our senior researcher, Ricardo Fort, discussed the first findings of his study “Community based organization and spontaneous urban planning: keys for a rational urbanization process in the absence of the state” at The Safe & Inclusive Cities Exchange 2017 SAICx17, en Nairobi. The meeting is the main event of The Safe and Inclusive Cities (SAIC) initiative, funded by […]
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Hugo Ñopo will be speaker at Oxford University “A Better Future for Women at Work: Legal and Policy Strategies” International Conference
18/05/2017 3:10 pm - 4:10 pm Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
Despite numerous legal and policy interventions women continue to face significant disadvantage in both formal and informal work. The law, as currently conceived, has been unable to fully achieve women’s equality in the labour force. However, while it is important to question whether we can rely exclusively on the law to fully address the continuing and […]
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Martin Valdivia will share “The Role of Social Skills and Networks in the Fight against Poverty”, at University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas event
04/04/2017 1:00 pm Albert Pick Hall 1541 Brescia Ave. Suite 110 Coral Gables Employment, productivity and innovation
Our senior researcher, Martín Valdivia, will share “The Role of Social Skills and Networks in the Fight against Poverty”, at the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, on Tueday, April 4. The presentation is part of the Institute’s Research Lunch Series. Development economics devoted decades to addressing key market failures and made some […]
- 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