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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Educación superior, políticas inclusivas y discriminación en el mercado laboral
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Jorge Aguero
Este ensayo apunta al tema de productividad desde el ángulo de la formación de capital humano. Este estudio resume los avances en acceso a la educación y muestra la tarea pendiente en educación superior, y luego debate el papel de las políticas inclusivas con el ejemplo de Beca 18 en el contexto de un mercado […]
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El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar
2022 Maria Balarin, Santiago Cueto, Ricardo Fort
Los ensayos que conforman este libro han sido escritos a modo de conmemoración por los primeros 40 años de vida institucional de GRADE, que coinciden no solo con el Bicentenario de la Independencia del Perú, sino también con la crisis sanitaria por la pandemia del COVID-19 y sus profundas secuelas económicas, sociales y políticas. Desde […]
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JournalThe European Journal of Development Research
Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Observational Study in Brazil
2022 Rafael Goldszmidt, Patrick Behr, Cesar Zucco, Anna-Katharina Lenz, Lauro Gonzalez, Martin Valdivia
This paper studies the impact of microcredit in Brazil. We use a propensity score matching on original primary data on business and personal outcomes to compare veteran clients of BNDES—Brazil’s largest government-owned development bank—to a matched sample of more recent clients. Based on administrative data as well as data from a survey of 2107 clients […]
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Inversión pública y desigualdad en América Latina
2022 Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo
A partir de dos estudios de caso, en el Perú y Colombia, este estudio encuentra que la inversión pública presenta un efecto de reducción de la desigualdad, pero muy pequeño, por lo cual se necesitaría una gran inversión para lograr una reducción mínima de la desigualdad. Además, se encuentra que el efecto de la inversión […]
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Actitudes ante el riesgo y preferencias intertemporales de los trabajadores peruanos
2022 Miguel Jaramillo, Kristian López, Óscar Rodríguez, Diego Tocre
Every individual, when making economic decisions, must evaluate different options with uncertain results that will affect their well-being at different moments in time. Based on the meeting between theoretical and experimental economics, this document estimates the risk and intertemporal consumption preferences of Peruvian workers. The authors contribute in two ways: they study how workers make […]
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Pathways to Formalization: Going Beyond the Formality Dichotomy
2018
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
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
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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Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
2018
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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El género y las trayectorias hacia la adultez en el Perú: educación, trabajo y maternidad/paternidad
2017
En este documento examinamos cómo el género afecta las trayectorias educativas, laborales y de maternidad/ paternidad de una muestra de jóvenes que crecen en situación de pobreza en el Perú. Reportamos los resultados y las trayectorias de 26 miembros de la cohorte mayor que participaron en la investigación cualitativa del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio […]
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JournalJournal of Development Economics
Business training plus for female entrepreneurship? Short and medium-term experimental evidence from Peru
2015Martin Valdivia,
With millions of women around the developing world thrown into self-employment but with low productivity, increasing the profitability of their businesses is highly relevant for poverty reduction and gender equity. This study evaluates the impacts of a BDS program serving female microentrepreneurs in Lima using an experimental design, that included two treatment groups: One received […]
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JournalEnvironment and Development Economics
Extractive industries and local development in the Peruvian Highlands
2015, Javier Escobal,
During the last 20 years, the mining sector in Peru has been experiencing sustained growth. Using census, administrative, nationally and regionally representative data we compare districts in the Peruvian Highlands with a recent mining development with suitable counterfactuals. We find that the new mining activities attract migration inflows, and have some positive effects over educational […]
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JournalEstudios Económicos
Productividad sectorial en el Perú: un análisis a nivel de firmas
2014, , Alan Sanchez, ,
In this paper we estimate the production function by economic sectors in Peru, we also characterize the productivity of firms by using two indicators: the total factor productivity and the labour productivity. The data correspond to the total formal firms observed between 2002 and 2011, information that allows to correct the traditional econometric problems behind […]
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JournalEn breve
Medios de comunicación, contenidos y comportamiento: algunos énfasis sobre la inclusión financiera
2014, Martin Valdivia,
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Productividad sectorial en el Perú: un análisis a nivel de firmas
Productividad en el Perú: medición, determinantes e implicancias2016, , Alan Sanchez, ,
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Los retornos de las habilidades cognitivas y socioemocionales en el Perú
Productividad en el Perú: medición, determinantes e implicancias2016Juan Jose Diaz, , ,
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El proceso de certificación del pisco peruano: una propuesta de medición de sus principales efectos
Midiendo el impacto de la infraestructura de la calidad en América Latina: experiencias, alcances y limitaciones2014Ricardo Fort, ,
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Los sectores no primarios y el mercado interno, 1930-1980
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Leve mejoría en el cumplimiento, pero limitado por la alta informalidad
Incumplimiento con el salario mínimo en América Latina: el peso de los factores económicos e institucionales2014Juan Jose Diaz,
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El modelo de la caja municipal en Perú
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
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Expansión de las microfinanzas en zonas rurales de América Latina
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
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Innovaciones institucionales y normativas para el desarrollo de las microfinanzas en América Latina
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
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Innovaciones tecnológicas en las microfinanzas en América Latina
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
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Spotlight on Publications: Labour market policies in Latin America
2014Miguel Jaramillo,
The publications presented in this Spotlight represent some of the key resources dealing with issues related to labour market policies in Latin America.
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Más crecimiento, más equidad: Prioridades de desarrollo en Guatemala
2008,
La estructura y selección de temas de la presente publicación responde, en su mayor parte, a un diagnóstico de crecimiento para Guatemala realizado en 2007, donde se identificaron un conjunto de factores que afectan las posibilidades de desarrollo del país. A lo largo de las páginas hay un reconocimiento tácito de que, si bien todos […]
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Outsiders?: The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
2008,
This report raises a number of fundamental questions about the multidimensional and interrelated nature of social exclusion and moves beyond the traditional emphasis on outcomes and groups to view exclusion as a process that results from societal traits that limit the functionings of the excluded. Using the tools of experimental economics, the report shows the […]
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Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú
2007Eduardo Zegarra, Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce, Juana Kuramoto, Manuel Glave, Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo, , Juan Jose Diaz, Nancy Birdsall, Maximo Torero, Santiago Cueto, Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Martin Valdivia, Nestor Valdivia,
Este libro recoge las Mimeos presentadas en la conferencia Investigación, políticas y desarrollo, realidad en el marco del 25 aniversario del Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo.
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Jóvenes emprendedores: evaluación de programas de promoción
2003Miguel Jaramillo, ,
El limitado dinamismo del mercado laboral asalariado en el Perú no permite absorber la demanda de puestos de trabajo de los jóvenes y muchos optan por generar su propio empleo. ¿Hay maneras efectivas de apoyarlos?
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Projects
- Science, Technology & Innovation: Review and AgendaOctober 2016
- Informalidad entre las pequeñas y micro empresasJanuary 2016
- Promoviendo el liderazgo de las mujeres en pequeñas empresasJune 2015
- Estudio de Benchmarking en Incubadora en BionegociosJune 2015
- Identificación de población objetivo del Programa Presupuestal Desarrollo Productivo EmpresasDecember 2014
- Evaluación de intervenciones que promueven el liderazgo de las mujeres en pequeñas empresasOctober 2014
- Ahorro Programado y el bienestar de los hogares pobres en República DominicanaSeptember 2014
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA)September 2014
- Spatial analysis of the adoption of agricultural technologies in Peru: a view from the 2012 Agricultural and Livestock CensusJuly 2014
- Impact evaluation of business initiatives on the base of the social pyramidApril 2013 - October 2013
News
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in RPP Noticias: “Everywhere you look at the quality of employment data, we are worse off than before the pandemic”.
October 17, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Employment relative to 2019 in Metropolitan Lima has grown 1%, but unemployment has grown 38%. If we look at proper employment, it has fallen 8% since before the pandemic. This drop particularly affects medium-sized companies. Everywhere you look at the quality of employment data, we are worse off than before the pandemic. If we look […]
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Labour market in 2022: following the same path, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 26, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The number of people in informal employment continues breaking historical records for the country, having reached 9.77 million in the second quarter of the year. On the other hand, the number of formal workers, 4.03 million, remains lower than any point in the last 8 years”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the […]
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Labor informality aggravates social gaps in Peru, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 11, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The gaps between formal and informal workers are the main factor behind youth labor inequality. Young people who work in the informal sector earn on average 40% less than those who have a formal job. […] The evidence suggests that it makes sense to invest in improving the first labor experiences of young people”. Miguel Jaramillo, […]
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The improbable transition to formality, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 8, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Two traits are key to characterizing workers who transition from informality to formality: education and age. Greater education increases the probability of entering salaried formality from all labor segments, and more pronounced for the increase in education. high school to high school.” Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, shares recent evidence on mobility between the […]
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Building safer and more sustainable food systems in Peru, by Karine Gatellier (IDS) and Ricardo Fort
July 22, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
The pandemic has aggravated the food insecurity situation of people. In Peru, the most vulnerable are facing great difficulties in accessing food, while food market vendors are also struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Read this Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) story of change to know how the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) […]
Events
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Hugo Ñopo gave the conference Economic Perspectives to 2023 at the César Vallejo University Tarapoto
03/05/2022 7:00 pm Universidad César Vallejo Tarapoto Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
“What if a part of the consumption tax goes to pensions? We have to rethink a new social protection where labor rights are universalized and are no longer just rights of formal workers. The new vision of labor regulation says that what What needs to be protected is not necessarily jobs, but people”. Watch again […]
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Miguel Jaramillo and Hugo Ñopo joined an IPE event on the economic impact of the new labor code
28/04/2022 8:00 am - 9:00 am Facebook del IPE Employment, productivity and innovation
“One of the most worrying things is the new regulations on fixed-term contracts. We have about two and a half million people, about half of the formal salaried PEA, who have temporary contracts. […] What will happen to them the day after this rule is approved? Will they be hired in the black, will they […]
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Hugo Ñopo joined a Club de Madrid and Southern Voice work session on the way to the World Social Summit 2025
04/02/2022 8:00 am Zoom de Southern Voice Employment, productivity and innovation
Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, outlined today a number of social develoment and cooperation priorities emerging from the Global South in a working session co-organized by the Club de Madrid and Southern Voice, on the way to the World Social Summit 2025. Former Heads of State and government and representatives from civil society organizations […]
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Conference Economic Reactivation and Public Investment: Building Back Better
23/09/2021 9:00 am - 10:45 am Zoom de GRADE Employment, productivity and innovation
La pandemia del COVID-19 ha expuesto debilidades estructurales de la economía peruana. Entre ellas sobresalen un alto nivel de informalidad (tanto en el autoempleo como en el trabajo asalariado) y la ausencia de mecanismos de protección social universales. Así mismo, la tasas de inversion privadas, alrededor del 20% del PBI, son bajas, alrededor de la […]
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Hugo Ñopo was a panelist in the Dialogues on the Future of Work in the Global South from the perspective of Latin America
20/07/2021 10:00 am YouTube de FOWIGS Employment, productivity and innovation
We invite you to participate in the Future of Work Dialogues in the Global South from the perspective of Latin America. 25 experts will discuss around 6 round tables: Skills, Technology, Labor market institutions, Demography, Inequality and Fiscal Policy. Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, will be a panelist for the first roundtable. These dialogues are […]
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