Commodity Price Shocks and Quality of Employment in Peru
The 2000s commodities boom spurred a period of high economic growth across Latin America. In Peru, this “super cycle” was primarily driven by a surge in mining exports, which expanded by a factor of 7.5 between 2001 and 2013. This boom has been associated with poverty reduction in mining areas and with the creation of both direct and indirect employment opportunities. However, the quality of these mining-related jobs remains underexplored. In this seminar, Beatriz Jambrina (OPHI Researcher) employs the Alkire-Foster method to map individual employment conditions across Peru, estimating the causal effect of a local expansion of mining on quality of employment.

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Date: 18 February 2025, 16:10
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room 2
Speaker: Beatriz Jambrina (OPHI)
Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development
Organiser: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Organiser contact email address: ophi@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Part of: OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Eleanor Duncan