Miguel Jaramillo Baanante
Senior Researcher
PhD in History - University of California
mjaramillo@grade.org.pe
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.
He has taught classes in economics at the Pontifical Catholic University and at the Pacific University. He has served as Advisor to Vice Ministers and Ministers in the fields of labor, social promotion and industry, having been Vice Minister of Social Promotion as well as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Ministry of Labor and Social Promotion.
Miguel has conducted research projects and consultancies for the International Labor Office, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the Ministry of Labor and Social Promotion, the Andean Development Corporation, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Ministry of Education, and the United Nations Development Program, to name but a few. He was Project Director and Senior Researcher at the APOYO Institute, an Executive Board member of the National Industrial Work Training Service (SENATI) between 1997 and 2000, a member of the Non-permanent Specialized Committee (CENPES) for Development and Productive Employment of the Organization of American States (OAS) and Founding Director of the Executive Board of the National Fund for Professional Training and Employment Promotion (FONDOEMPLEO), and a member of the Poverty and Inequality Research Network (NIP) where he also held a seat on the Executive Board between 2009 and 2011.
He is currently a member of the National Labor Council and Vicepresident of the Peruvian Economic Association..
Publications
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Policies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Miguel Jaramillo, kristian López Vargas
An analysis of the policies taken in Peru to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The dynamics of the Peruvian labor market: job creation and destruction and destruction of jobs and worker flows
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
Peruvian labor analysis has focused mainly on its static dimension. Thus, the focus has been on indicators such as the number of jobs generated; unemployment, occupation or participation rates; job allocation by sector or formality, of unemployment, occupation or participation; the allocation of work according to sectors or formality condition. These indicators provide a view […]
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Journaleconomíaunam
The impact of Covid-19 on the Peruvian economy
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
Potential impacts on labor incomes of Peruvian homes are analyzed. Although it is still uncertain the magnitude and duration of the economic shock those homes deal with, our approach focus attention on this research question: how prepared are the Peruvian homes for shocks as the one they are dealing with these days? What impacts are […]
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Impactos de la epidemia del coronavirus en el trabajo de las mujeres en el Perú
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
The study aimed to analyze the potential effects of the crisis on the employment and labor income of women in Peru. To achieve this, the research team did a comparative analysis of the labor insertion of women in contrast to men, exploring their strengths and weaknesses in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic situation. The […]
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COVID-19 and external shock. Economic impacts and policy options
2020 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo
Latin America is currently suffering from two independent but related shocks: the impact of COVID-19 and the shock of commodity prices. Peru, we argue, is a case in which the strongest impact comes from the pandemic. Peru was the first country in Latin America to react and implement sanitary and economic measures against the coronavirus. […]
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Enfoques educativos para niños y niñas trabajadores: estudio de caso de dos experiencias peruanas
2003 Miguel Jaramillo, José Carlos Chávez
En el Mimeo se busca comparar la gestión y resultados educativos de escuelas incluidas en el Programa DINALEA en Lima Metropolitana con aquella promovida por la organización Manthoc en Lima Metropolitana.
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El potencial de generación de empleo de la agricultura peruana
1999 Miguel Jaramillo
El presente trabajo evalúa el potencial de contribución del sector agrícola en términos de generación de nuevos empleos en la próxima década.
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Información en el mercado laboral: teoría y políticas
1998 Miguel Jaramillo, Gustavo Yamada
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JournalJournal of Development Effectiveness
Evaluating interventions to reduce maternal mortality: evidence from Peru’s PARSalud programme
2009 Miguel Jaramillo, Juan Jose Diaz
This paper evaluates the impact of an intervention oriented to reduce maternal mortality in Peru and takes advantage of both spatial and temporal variation in the implementation of the programme to identify its effects.
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JournalPunto de equilibrio
La Información en el mercado laboral y el rol del Estado
1998 Miguel Jaramillo
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Perú: instituciones y desarrollo: avances y agenda de investigación
Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú2007 Manuel Glave, Miguel Jaramillo
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La investigación sobre el mercado laboral peruano: instituciones, capacitación y grupos desfavorecidos
Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú2007 Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo, Juan Jose Diaz
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La investigación sobre el mercado laboral peruano: instituciones, capacitación y grupos desfavorecidos
2007 Miguel Jaramillo, Juan Jose Diaz, Hugo Ñopo
El objetivo del trabajo es enfocarse en algunos temas centrales para los debates actuales sobre políticas laborales, en los cuales GRADE ha tenido mayor interés y participación. Específicamente, son tres las áreas sobre las que quieren discutir el estado del avance de la investigación, plantear algunos debates y establecer su importancia para la formulación de […]
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Governability and economic perfomance in 1990s Peru
Political crises, social conflict and economic development: the political economy of the Andean region -
El impacto de la apertura al comercio internacional sobre la economía regional del extremo norte peruano, 1780-1877
Estado y mercado en la historia del Perú2002 Miguel Jaramillo
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Labour Market Information Programmes
2013 Miguel Jaramillo
The Brief then provides an overview of monitoring and evaluation indicators and impact assessments before concluding with a discussion of enabling factors and key lessons for other regions.
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Peru’s ProJoven Training Programme
2013 Miguel Jaramillo
Este brief proporciona un análisis del diseño, funcionamiento de los mencanismos e impactos del programa ProJoven para extraer los factores clave de éxito que serán útiles para otras regiones.
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¿Tiene el presupuesto participativo algún impacto en la calidad de los servicios públicos? El caso del sector del agua y saneamiento
2013 Miguel Jaramillo, Lorena Alcazar
El efecto de la participación ciudadana en las decisiones presupuestarias sobre la calidad del servicio público a través del análisis del vínculo entre el PP e indicadores de cobertura y calidad del servicio de agua y saneamiento en el Perú
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From Supply- to Demand-led: Labour Training in Latin America
2013 Miguel Jaramillo
This Brief begins by describing general features of the shift to a demand-led approach to labour training and highlights some of the main programmes in the region.
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Impacto de la licencia municipal en el desempeño de las microempresas en el Cercado de Lima
2013 Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo
Aportes para el debate sobre el efecto de las reformas municipales de simplificación administrativa en el comportamiento de la microempresa.
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Projects
- Efectos de la caída de la fecundidad sobre la estructura de los hogares y la participación laboral femeninaJanuary 2016
- The political economy of land inequality in Latin America: the case of PeruAugust 2015
- Evaluación de la implementación del proceso de evaluación de las intervenciones públicas a través del instrumento EDEP en el marco del Presupuesto por ResultadosOctober 2014
- The future of impact evaluationOctober 2014
- Strengthening of evaluation on impact of policies and programs in the regionMay 2013 - November 2014
- Impact evaluation of business initiatives on the base of the social pyramidApril 2013 - October 2013
- Analysis of incidence of potential fiscal reformsFebruary 2013 - December 2013
- Evaluation of the design and execution of public budgets (EDEPP) – Public Teaching CareerJanuary 2013 - May 2013
- Annual monitoring of informal economy in PeruApril 2012 - December 2012
- Mechanisms for inclusion of the informal sector to the Social Security Network in the Dominican RepublicNovember 2011 - March 2012
Media
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El mercado laboral del 2022: persisten los déficits estructurales
January 8, 2023 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Formal employment grew in all age groups, but particularly among the youngest, and at all educational levels, although more so among people with completed secondary school and higher education, where the bulk of the labor force is concentrated. It also grew more among men than women”. Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, writes in El […]
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RPP: Miguel Jaramillo comments on informal employment in Peru
December 26, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
According to the latest INEI report for 2022, there were 432,000 more jobs in Peru than in 2019. However, out of every 10 workers, only 2 are formal. For our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo, formal employment slowed down because there was no growth in private investment due to economic uncertainty. Read his opinion in this […]
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The half that is still far away, by Miguel Jaramillo
November 23, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“As long as half of our population does not come close to reaching their productive potential, talk of development will continue to be a quimera”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes in Jugo de Caigua about the gaps between men and women in the labor market.
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Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion in RPP Noticias on employment recovery
November 16, 2022
“Adequate employment is 14% below the pre-pandemic level, informal employment is already above pre-pandemic levels. Formal employment is at the level it was eight years ago”. RPP Noticias gathers the opinion of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo on the recovery of employment in the country.
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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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Peruvian labor market: less productive, less equitable and more precarious, by Miguel Jaramillo
April 30, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“We have a less productive, more inequitable labor market –with a greater gap between formal and informal– and more precarious. Today this market has less access to social benefits and the protection of the law.” In his new op-ed for Forbes Peru, our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo reviews how Peru’s response to the pandemic and current labor […]
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Is the increase in the minimum wage an impromptu decision? Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion
April 10, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
Is the increase in the minimum wage an impromptu decision? According to Miguel Jaramillo, principal investigator at GRADE, “it is very difficult to justify this type of measure in the current context of depressed formal employment and growing informal employment. The decision is opportunistic, not technical.” Read his full comment in La República.
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Minimum wage: an ineffective instrument to redistribute income, by Miguel Jaramillo
March 4, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation
“As an instrument to redistribute income to the least favored, the Minimum Vital Remuneration is not a potentially effective policy.” In this article from the Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE), our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo shares evidence on the operation and effects of minimum wage policies in Peru.
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in RPP Noticias: impact of the pandemic on employment
October 20, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“If you look at the evolution of employment in Metropolitan Lima, you see that informal employment is growing faster than formal employment. Informal employment, particularly self-employment, fell a lot with restrictions on mobility, but now it is growing very fast, because the independent worker has no social protection mechanism”. Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo and other experts suggested measures to encourage formal hiring in firms. Article from El Comercio
September 30, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“Employment subsidies should target the most vulnerable groups and also training.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, was one of the experts consulted by El Comercio to suggest ways to promote the hiring of formal workers among firms.
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in NPR: economic impact of the pandemic in Peru
September 8, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
According to Miguel Jaramillo, although parts of the economy are expected to rebound quickly, he is concerned about “the long-term consequences of the loss of human capital — a generation that is going to have a very hard time finding a job.” Our senior researcher talked with National Public Radio NPR about the economic impact […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion in Al Jazeera. Peru economy: COVID-19 puts millions of people out of work
August 22, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“It is the worst recession since the 19th century. The economy shut down completely. In 12 out of 24 regions, there was not a single case of COVID-19. Instead of isolating, the quarantine was also imposed on them, revealing the lack of understanding of the effects of this measure. […] The long-term consequences are enormous: […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo: “In 2022 we would only see figures similar to the pre-COVID-19 stage, in terms of per capita income, or total income”
November 6, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“In 2022 we would only see figures similar to the pre-COVID-19 stage, in terms of per capita income, or total income. People will look for employment and if they cannot find it, employment will be created due to the flexibility of the sector. informal”. Our researcher Miguel Jaramillo spoke with the Lima Chamber of Commerce […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in Canal N: sectors that suffer the most from the economic crisis due to the pandemic
May 13, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
“There are two groups that appear to be less likely to receive government aid. On the one hand, the poor are not identifiable, given the problems of the patterns with which they identify beneficiary households. On the other hand, the emerging middle class , who is not far from the poverty line, but who due […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo: “In March and April, 16% to 20% of formal employment would be lost by COVID-19”
April 7, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation
“In March and April 16% to 20% of formal employment would be lost by COVIDー19.” According to Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, this figure would correspond only to normal job rotation. The impact of the pandemic could increase the level if layoffs are considered. In addition, he believes that the horizon to recover activity […]
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Miguel Jaramillo addresses the state of labor informality in Peru
April 30, 2018 Employment, productivity and innovation
“The probability that a young person has a formal contract for an indefinite period of time is 2%. This is a serious problem. The most pertinent training for a young person is the one the firm gives him, but that occurrence has practically been cut. ” Our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, spoke with RPP Noticias […]
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Miguel Jaramillo gives his thoughts about the unemployment rate during the first quarter of 2018 in Metropolitan Lima
April 16, 2018 Employment, productivity and innovation
Between January and March 2018, the unemployment rate in Metropolitan Lima reached 8.1%, the highest level since the same period in 2012, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI). According to Miguel Jaramillo, in an interview with RPP Noticias, the underlying factor is the weakness of the economy, which translates into a lower capacity […]
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Sueldo mínimo subirá si hay más productividad de los trabajadores
February 24, 2014 Employment, productivity and innovation
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El MinEdu participó en la 7ma reunión anual de la Red de Evaluación de Impacto (IEN) de la Asociación de Economía de América Latina y El Caribe (LACEA)
November 7, 2013 Education and learning
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Nuevos creadores, nuevas ideas
May 9, 2013 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Se estancan los sueldos de los profesionales
August 16, 2012 Employment, productivity and innovation
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El empleo en mypes cae, pero crece en grandes empresas
May 16, 2012 Employment, productivity and innovation
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Presentations
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¿Tiene el Presupuesto Participativo efecto en la calidad de los servicios públicos? El caso del sector de agua y saneamiento en el Peru
Lima-Perú, 15 June, 2017
Presentación del libro "Mejorando el acceso y la calidad de los servicios públicos en América Latina: gobernar y servir”
Selected Publications
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Contratos laborales en el Perú: dinámica y determinantes
2019 Miguel Jaramillo, Daniela Campos
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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