This paper derives the skill content of 30 countries, ranging from low-income to high-income ones, from the occupational structure of their economies. Five different skills are defined.. Cross-country measures of skill content show that the intensity of national production of manual skills...

In this paper, we adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in Metropolitan Lima: salespersons, secretaries and (accounting and administrative) assistants. The adapted pseudo-audit...

Teachers are one of the most important inputs for learning, but in many low-income countries they are poorly distributed between schools. This paper discusses the case of Malawi, which has introduced new evidence-based policies and procedures to improve the equity and efficiency of the...

Analyses the role of small, medium and microenterprises in generating employment. Covers trends from the 1980s to 2000s.

La economía peruana actualmente tiene una baja capacidad para la generación de empleos de calidad, asociada a los bajos niveles de productividad laboral. La primera parte del documento analiza datos del período 2000-2006 y encuentra pocos avances en cuanto al crecimiento de la productividad...

"El presente trabajo analiza seis casos emblemáticos de éxito empresarial y generación de empleo no precario en los últimos años en el Perú con el objeto de identificar lecciones de estrategia empresarial y espacios para la acción pública que faciliten la multiplicación de estos casos...

The policy of liberalization of the labor market undertaken in Peru during the nineties does not seem to have produced the expected results. Although the varieties and flexibility of labor contracts were increased and the average cost of lying off an employee was reduced, the weight of the...