European Employment Strategy and Spanish Labour Market Policies

Ramon Ballester ()

No 14, Working Papers of the Department of Economics, University of Girona from Department of Economics, University of Girona

Abstract: The paper aim is to analyse the influence of the European Employment Strategy (EES) in the implementation of the Spanish labour market policies. The first part of the paper describes the evolution and content of the EES. In the second one, the definition of activation is also explained. In addition to that, the ways how the EES develops and promotes active labour market policies are examined. The evolution of labour market policies in Spain and the current configuration of both active and passive policies are studied in the next three chapters. In these parts, the paper investigates to which extent the provisions of the EES have been implemented in Spain. The paper shows that: i) activation has been rising in the European countries since the implementation of the EES; ii) this fact has also happened in relative terms (comparing the evolution of active to passive policies); iii) Spain has been one of the countries which has led these processes; iv) the EES seems to have been influencing the configuration of some parts of the Spanish labour market policies.

Keywords: activation; employment policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 J23 J24 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-06
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