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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Contratos laborales en el Perú: dinámica y determinantes
2019 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
Beyond the commonly explored formality / informality binomial, this study helps to understand the duality of the formal labor market in Peru, determined by the type of contract used. It is found that 70% of the formal work initiated between 2012 and 2016 involved a temporary contract; 19%, one for an indeterminate period; and the […]
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Habilidades, formación para el trabajo y subempleo juvenil: un enfoque de ciclo de vida
2019 Alan Sanchez
This study uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives study to establish which are the most important aspects that predict access to job formation and the labour market at age 22. Results highlight the role of cognitive skills, socio-emotional competencies, and the socio-economic level of the household to explain access to higher education institutions and […]
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¿Son los contratos temporales un peldaño hacia un contrato por tiempo indeterminado?
2019 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
During the last decades, the use of fixed-term contracts has grown around the world, a phenomenon that has gone hand in hand with reductions in the probability of obtaining a contract for an indeterminate period of time. Fixed-term contracts could be used as a means to assess the skills of new workers before they are […]
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Los efectos desprotectores de la protección del empleo. El impacto de la reforma del contrato laboral de 2001
2019 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 bastante superior a la de cualquier país de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE), y mayor también que la de cualquiera de los países de América Latina. Esta publicación […]
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La transición hacia el mercado laboral y los estudios postsecundarios en Perú: evidencia del estudio Niños del Milenio
Millennials en América Latina y el Caribe: ¿trabajar o estudiar?2018 Marta Favara, Alan Sanchez
Durante las últimas dos décadas, Perú ha sido uno de los países con mayor crecimiento económico de Latinoamérica, y ha tenido una de las reducciones más importantes en pobreza monetaria, así como mejoras en los niveles de acceso a la educación. Sin embargo, a pesar de estos avances, la calidad de los trabajos a los […]
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The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparisons Perspective
2007,
The paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Chile during the period 1992 to 2003 using the decomposition approach developed in Ñopo (2004). This approach, which decomposes the wage gap into four additive elements, stresses the need for comparisons inside the common support for the distributions of observable characteristics of individuals. Also, […]
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Becoming an Entrepreneur
2007,
Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametric matching estimator the paper alleviates problems of selection bias (on observable and unobservable traits) and creates the appropriate counterfactuals of interest. The […]
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Entrenamiento ocupacional para reducir la segregación de género: El impacto de Projoven
2007,
El trabajo trata la evaluación de ProJoven, el programa de capacitación para el trabajo de jóvenes en de Perú y muestra las diferencias considerables que hay en sus efectos entre hombres y mujeres. Dieciocho meses después de haber participado en el programa, el empleo entre las mujeres mejoró aproximadamente en 15% (en el caso de […]
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Usando pseudopaneles para medir la movilidad del ingreso en América
2007,
En el trabajo se presenta una panorámica comparada de los patrones de movilidad en 14 países latinoamericanos entre 1992 y 2003. Se presenta un conjunto de estimadores de la idea tradicional de movilidad del ingreso, así como en cuanto a la movilidad alrededor de los límites entre la pobreza extrema y la pobreza moderada. Los […]
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Becoming a entrepreneur
2007,
Utilizando la encuesta chilena de datos de Panel CASEN 1996-2001, este trabajo analiza el impacto en los ingresos de trabajadores asalariados que se convierten en empresarios (es decir, trabajadores por cuenta propia y microempresarios). Mediante un estimador de diferencia-en-diferencias combinado con técnicas no paramétricas de matching, este estudio alivia los problemas de sesgo de selección […]
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El comercio de la cascarilla en el norte peruano-sur ecuatoriano
El norte en la historia regional, siglos XVIII-XIX1997Miguel Jaramillo,
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Calificación, salarios y distribución del ingreso en un contexto de ajuste estructural
Empleo y distribución del ingreso en América Latina : ¿hemos avanzado?.1997
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Acceso al crédito en las economías rurales: diferencias entre el sector formal e informal en el Perú
Perú: el problema agrario en debate - SEPIA VI1996Martin Valdivia, ,
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Organización y financiamiento del sistema ciencia-tecnología-innovación: una experiencia de seguimiento regional
Financiamiento sostenido para la investigación y el desarrollo tecnológico en Iberoamérica -
Regional databases and S&T development indicators problems, achievements and utilization of grade’s Latin American database
Les indicateurs de science pour les pays en developpment: science indicators for developing countries1992Patricia McLauchlan de Arregui,
GRADE has accumulated a large volume of S&T and socio-economic indicators gathered in a database. It purpose is to maintain updated statistical data which can be used to monitor the evolution of scientific production in the region.
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Projects
News
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Yanapay is a palliative, by Miguel Jaramillo
September 13, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“You have to understand that programs like the Yanapay voucher are a palliative to a situation of scarce adequate employment opportunities, in no case are they a solution”. Read our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo‘s op-ed on the new government subsidy that began to be paid yesterday. Via La República.
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo on the effects of the pandemic: “Reengagement wages are now lower”
September 9, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“During the pandemic, Peru was the country that lost the most jobs in Latin America. It is true that this job has been recovering, but not with the same quality. This is fundamentally reflected with wages: wages for reengagement in the labor market of Peruvians are being lower than we had before the pandemic”. Listen […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Social and labor protection policies, how are we doing? Hugo Ñopo’s opinion on TV Peru
September 7, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
“We have to think about a labor market that is much less dysfunctional than the one we have today. A market in which up to 75% of jobs are informal and that do not contribute to social security. We have to think about two points: the productivity of these jobs and the social protection network linked […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo: “Under these conditions I do not see firms in Peru eager to invest and generate formal employment”
September 6, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
For Miguel Jaramillo, it is “totally insufficient” to seek the reactivation of employment only through temporary jobs. On the other hand, it considers that the range of access to vaccination for the youngest should be expanded. “It seems to me that a massive temporary employment program with small infrastructure works is now necessary, perhaps managed […]
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Economist David Tuesta highlights studies by Hugo Ñopo and Miguel Jaramillo in his op-ed on pension reform
August 29, 2021 Employment, productivity and innovation
In his El Comercio op-ed, “The key piece to reform pensions”, David Tuesta addresses the pension reform in Peru. According to the economist, one of the key points of this reform is the effect of cost overruns in the labor market. “The presence of monetary and non-monetary contracting costs -such as the “adequate protection” established by […]
Events
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Martín Valdivia will be a speaker at the opening of the 2019 World Savings Week
25/03/2019 11:20 am - 11:40 am Employment, productivity and innovation
Our senior researcher, Martín Valdivia, will be one of the speakers at the opening conference of the 2019 World Savings Week, an international initiative of Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI), held in Peru by the Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP in Peru (SBS). The event, from March 25 to 31, brings together various […]
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Manuel Glave joined the launch of the Work 4 Progress program in Peru
28/11/2018 Universidad Antonio Ruiz De Montoya (Av. Paso de los Andes 970, Pueblo Libre) Rural development and agriculture, Employment, productivity and innovation
Our senior researcher, Manuel Glave, joined the launch of the Work 4 Progress program in our country. The theme of th event was “The work we want: Social innovation in Peru”. The initiative aims to achieve the improvement of the individual and familiar income of women and young people of the Andean and Amazonian indigenous rural people through […]
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III Forum Dialogues for Development: Hugo Ñopo will speak about social protection and labor productivity
04/09/2018 11:30 am - 1:10 pm Swissotel Lima Employment, productivity and innovation
Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, will be one of the speakers at the III Forum Dialogues for Development, held by the National Confederation of Private Business Institutions (Confiep) and Seminarium. Dialogue for Development is an initiative that aims to gather the business community, as well as authorities and other opinion leaders on topics of great relevance to the development […]
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Sri Lanka: Lorena Alcázar joins Southern Voice on State of the SDGs initial meeting
18/07/2018 → 20/07/2018 Negombo, Sri Lanka Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation
Our senior researcher, Lorena Alcázar, joins the initial meeting between the teams of the Southern Voice on State of the SDGs initiative. GRADE will conduct the study on SDG 4 and 8 titled Poor education and precarious jobs in Peru: Understanding who is left behind and why?
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GRADE’s International Conference ‘Territories and Development in Peru’
05/06/2018 → 06/06/2018 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) 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
GRADE’s International Conference on Territories and Development in Peru was held on 5-6 June, 2018. In this event we shared the findings of a research program that we have carried out over the last three years, due to the agreement between GRADE and the Think Tank Initiative managed by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Through this research program, […]
- 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