Labour market

With the support of Ingeus ↓ Download the full report The Spanish labour market continues to show significant structural imbalances: high unemployment rates —overall, youth and long-term— represent a fundamental challenge. This challenge is more acute in autonomous communities with high unemployment and low labour force participation. In addition, certain groups (such as people with […]

This paper evaluates the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) on productivity and work inequality. I run a Randomized Controlled Trial in a university debating competition, in which I randomly assign GenAI support to students to prepare a series of one-on-one debates. This novel setting allows me to measure productivity improvements in a task involving […]

The new legislature is opening a debate on the reform of the unemployment benefits and subsidies system, with apparently opposing views even within the government itself.  Gathering in this brief the most relevant published evidence that identifies causal effects of recent reforms for Spain, allows to anticipate what effects reforms in this area might have:  […]

Last Tuesday, November 28th, we talked about our book “Un País Posible: Manual de Reformas Políticamente Viables” (Un País Posible: A Handbook of Politically Viable Reforms) thanks to the invitation of the Harvard Kennedy School Spain Alumni Network. The conversation counted with the interventions of Toni Roldán, Miguel Almunia, Marta Suárez-Varela and Antonio Cabrales and […]

Spain has practically the same real per capita income as 15 years ago, while other countries around us are much richer than they were then. This means that over the last eighteen years we have not improved our average standard of living. We are therefore on the road to two lost decades. There are many […]

OECD economies are going through an ageing transition in the incoming decades. Between 2020 and 2060, the ratio between persons aged 15-64 years old to persons older than 64 years will increase from three to almost 2 by 2060. Among them, the Spanish economy ‘is  different’ only in that its ageing transition is one of […]

→ Temporary employment is one of the biggest problems in the Spanish labour market. It is high, present in all sectors, generates inefficiencies and economic problems, especially for certain groups, and is usually involuntary. → The 2021 Labour Reform has tried to tackle this problem through (i) the abolition of the temporary contract for a […]

En dos frases: la subida del salario mínimo anunciada por el gobierno puede tener efectos negativos para trabajadores jóvenes en determinados sectores, especialmente en los dominados por empresas pequeñas. La evaluación de estos efectos debería ser más cuidadosa y realista, y sugiere la necesidad de contemplar otras opciones para mejorar la situación de los trabajadores […]

La Nueva Reforma Laboral planteada por el Gobierno ha sido la primera de envergadura consensuada con los dos agentes sociales.

En dos frases: un 17,6% de los ocupados teletrabajaron durante la pandemia; eran sobre todo profesionales universitarios de altos salarios en zonas urbanas, pero se desaprovechó potencial de teletrabajo entre los ocupados de menor formación, que citan razones como la inadecuación de sus viviendas con más frecuencia que los más formados. Sin embargo, las preferencias […]

Por Carlos Victoria No cabe duda de que la temporalidad es uno de los principales problemas de nuestro mercado laboral. Como se ha señalado en numerosas ocasiones, este presenta una escasa flexibilidad interna y una excesiva rigidez, encontrando en el recurso a la contratación temporal su mecanismo de ajuste habitual (Lahera y Conde-Ruiz, 2021). Los […]

– Labour market segmentation is once again behind much of the painful labour market adjustment suffered by the Spanish economy over the last year: the Labour Force Survey (EPA) data for the first quarter of 2021, released this week, indicate that job destruction has been disproportionately concentrated in temporary contracts → any labour market reform, […]