Spanish labour market, mobility and labour shortages

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, Alex Clymo, Cristina La Fuente, Ludo Visschers and David Zentler-Munro
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Carlos Carrillo-Tudela: University of Essex, CEPR - Center for Economic Policy Research, CESifo - CESifo, IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Institute of Labor Economics
Alex Clymo: University of Essex, PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, PJSE - Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Cristina La Fuente: University of Bath [Bath]
David Zentler-Munro: University of Essex

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Abstract: We use a simple yet powerful approach to investigate the dynamics of worker flows across sectors in the Spanish economy. The method imposes a minimal amount of structure on the data by assuming sector-specific matching functions, and backs out the direction of workers' search intensities across sectors using data on realised worker flows and vacancies. We find that aggregate search intensity in Spain has been increasing since the pandemic and has led aggregate labour shortages to be below pre-pandemic levels by 2023. However, this boost of search intensity is directed to industries with low matching efficiencies and job finding rates. As a result, aggregate match formation is near to a 10-years low relative to the number of matches that would result if search intensity was allocated to maximise total matches given the observed vacancy distribution and match efficiencies across sectors.

Date: 2025
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Published in Series - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, inPress, ⟨10.1007/s13209-025-00306-z⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s13209-025-00306-z

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