Policy Alternatives for a Return to Full Employment in Spain

David Rosnick and Mark Weisbrot

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Abstract: With Spain’s official unemployment rate at 26 percent, and the economy projected to contract by 1.3 percent this year, it is difficult to make the case for continued austerity that could push a barely growing economy back into recession. Yet the government is committed to further fiscal tightening, on the grounds that it has no choice. This paper will show that there are various feasible alternatives that can restore full employment to Spain by 2018, as well as other possibilities that could accomplish this goal even sooner.ssion that began in 2008, much of it is a result of policy choices, including a decrease in social spending.

Keywords: Spain; employment; austerity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E E2 E24 E5 E52 E58 E6 E62 E66 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2013-11
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