The labor market in Spain, 2002–2016

Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano and Anastasia Terskaya
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Anastasia Terskaya: University of Alicante, Spain

IZA World of Labor, 2017, No 403, 403

Abstract: Spain, the fourth largest eurozone economy, was hit particularly hard by the Great Recession, which made its chronic labor market problems more evident. Youth and long-term unemployment escalated during the crisis and, despite the ongoing recovery, in 2016 were still at unsustainably high levels. The aggregate rate of temporary employment declined during the recession, but grew among youth. Most interesting have been the narrowing of the gender gap in labor force participation, the decline in the share of immigrants in employment and the labor force, and the overall increase in wage inequality.

Keywords: unemployment; wage inequality; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I12 I13 J15 J16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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