In the last two decades, the Peruvian economy exhibited rapid growth. Moreover, the composition of the labor force improved in terms of education and experience, two variables which are typically associated to higher human capital. The average worker in 2012 had a higher level of education and...

The evidence at the micro level shows, that in the booming period, the rate of growth of labor productivity of the manufacturing sector is mainly explained by the labor productivity rate of growth of formal medium and large size firms rather than for nonfarm informal microenterprises of the...

This paper takes a macro and micro levels of analysis with the purpose to understand the dynamic of labor productivity in Peru throughout period 1997-2007 wherein two sub-periods are identified: a deceleration or ‘recession’ period, 1997-2001 of slow GDP economic growth and decreasing terms...