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Estabilidad laboral e indemnización: efectos de los costos de despido sobre el funcionamiento del mercado laboral peruano

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A inicios de la década de los noventa los costos de despido impuestos por la legislación laboral peruana eran aún bastante elevados. La estabilidad laboral absoluta y los altos pagos de indemnización por despido funcionaban en la práctica como impuestos a la contratación que convertían al empleo formal en un factor de producción cuasi-fijo. En 1991 se inició un proceso de cambios en la legislación laboral que ha llevado a que el Perú sea uno de los países que más ha flexibilizado su mercado de trabajo durante la década pasada. Las reformas permitieron una reducción importante en los costos de despido, principalmente debido a la abolición de la estabilidad laboral y la paulatina reducción del pago de indemnización por despido. En esta investigación se analiza la evolución y el impacto de los componentes del costo de despido (determinados por la interacción de la legislación sobre estabilidad laboral, la indemnización por despido y el periodo de prueba) sobre el mercado laboral peruano. A través de estimaciones de demanda de trabajo en empresas formales se muestra que los cambios legislativos han reducido el impacto negativo de los costos de despido sobre el nivel de empleo, que la velocidad de ajuste del empleo a su nivel óptimo ha aumentado ligeramente, y que la elasticidad producto se ha incrementado en los últimos años. Por otro lado, el análisis realizado muestra que una parte importante del crecimiento del empleo durante la década del noventa se dio bajo la modalidad de contratos temporales y de la informalización de las relaciones laborales, como forma de eludir los costos de despido. Finalmente, el análisis muestra también una reducción marcada de la duración media del empleo y un incremento de la rotación de los trabajadores de un empleo a otro, en particular a partir de 1993. El estudio sugiere que parte de la reducción en la duración y el incremento en la rotación del empleo puede atribuirse a la mayor utilización de contratos temporales y a la reducción en los costos de despido.

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  • Jaime Saavedra Chanduví & Eduardo Maruyama Sasaki, 2000. "Estabilidad laboral e indemnización: efectos de los costos de despido sobre el funcionamiento del mercado laboral peruano," Documentos de Investigación dt28, Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE).
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    Keywords

    Empleo; Estabilidad laboral; Despido; Indemnización por censantía; Mercado de trabajo; Economía del trabajo; Employment; Employment stability; Severance pay; Dismissal; Labour market; Labour economics; Peru;
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    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
    • J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings

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