Future of work

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 […]

In collaboration with Implement Consulting Group · With the support of Google ↓ Download the report  AI offers great potential to improve the delivery of public services while addressing particularly pressing challenges in the current Spanish context, such as reducing bureaucratic burdens and improving interactions with citizens. In a context like the current one, 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 […]

This study proposes the most in-depth and detailed analysis of gender inequality in STEM fields in Spain to date. Distinctively, we focus on areas with a significant emphasis on mathematics, where the most pronounced gaps occur; we cover everything from basic education, thanks to the latest PISA results, to the professional career, for which we […]

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 […]

→ 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.

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 […]

Sobre la existencia de un tope final para la edad de jubilación, apenas hay desacuerdo, pero una brecha se está abriendo en el debate público respecto a dónde y cómo debería funcionar este tope. 

– 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, […]