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OECD Economic Surveys: Spain 2010

Basic Statistics of Spain (2009)

Executive summary

Assessment and recommendations

Rebalancing the economy

Restoring fiscal sustainability

Reforming the labour market

Policies towards a sustainable use of water

Reforming the labour market

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Abstract	After steady employment growth since the 1990s, Spain has experienced the sharpest increase in unemployment among OECD countries during the crisis. Structural problems of the labour market have amplified the employment losses resulting from the crisis, which were considerably larger than in other OECD economies. Very high de facto severance payment of permanent contracts has resulted in a rigid dual market with adverse effects on unemployment and productivity. The collective wage bargaining system has hindered firms from adapting to macroeconomic shocks exacerbating their negative effects on the labour market. The recent labour market reform legislation is a positive step to reduce excessive protection of workers in permanent contracts, although some uncertainty remains on how courts will interpret it. It also makes it easier for firms to opt out from higher level collective agreements. The large drop-out rate from lower secondary education is an important factor explaining very high unemployment among young workers. Better access of young people to training is an effective tool to keep them out of a depressed labour market. Finally, the matching of people to jobs, notably through the public employment services, needs to be made more efficient, all the more so as the currently tight fiscal constraints make it imperative to get better value for public spending on active labour market policies. Although the recent reform allows private for-profit firms to provide placement services, more needs to be done. Performance of regional public employment services should be benchmarked and incentives of unemployment benefit recipients to search for a job increased.
Page Count	29
Starting Page	91
Ending Page	119
Language	English
Publisher	OECD Publishing
Publisher Date	2010-12-20
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Economics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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