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 […]

EsadeEcPol took part in the preparation of the study “The cost of child poverty in Spain”, presented today by the High Commissioner against Child Poverty, together with Romén Adán (KSNET), María Sánchez (KSNET/LSE), Luis Ayala (UNED), María Romaguera (UNED), Mariña Fernández (UAH), Judit Vall (UB) and Carlos Victoria (EsadeEcPol/UCM), under the direction of Libertad González […]

The progressivity of the Spanish tax system rests mainly on personal income tax (IRPF). However, the marginal rate that expresses this progressivity behaves erratically: it goes from 0% up to 15,000 euros to increasing by 43 points at low income levels, and then falls again for middle incomes. The most extreme example of this anomaly […]

→ 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 […]

The short- and medium-term effect of the economic decoupling between Russia and Europe resulting from the invasion of Ukraine is a double blow to Spaniards’ purchasing power, combining rising inflation and slowing GDP growth. We expect the crisis to reduce Spain’s expected growth for 2022 by more than 1%, with upside risks. Inflation, for its […]

La relación trasatlántica se encuentra en un momento de reconstrucción que parte con coincidencias en los objetivos, pero viene acompañado de diferencias cruciales en la estrategia para lograrlos.

– 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, […]

En este Policy Brief analizamos las diez políticas palanca y la gobernanza del “Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia: España Puede”.

Los valores medios de contaminación en la mayoría de las ciudades exceden el umbral fijado por la Organización Mundial de la Salud.

Spain’s most recent Labour Market Survey shows five major effects on the labour market.

In this webinar, Toni Roldán, director of EsadeEcPol, and Manuel de la Rocha, Secretary-General of Economic Affairs and G20.

We estimate the cost of a quasi-universal temporary cash transfer of 1,000 euros for an initial duration of three months.

Women are more likely than men to have lost their jobs since the start of the Covid-19 crisis.

The immediate objective of public policy has to be to ensure that workers do not go unprotected.