A primer on the 2022 Spanish Labour Reform

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  • Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente Universidad de Salamanca

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https://doi.org/10.7203/IREP.4.1.24764

Abstract

In February 2022, the Spanish Parliament approved a major reform of the labour market regulation that aimed at rolling back parts of the liberal reform of 2012 promoted by the conservatives and, simultaneously, confront the high rate of temporary employment that for decades has been one of the characteristics of the Spanish labour market vis a vis the EU. This paper has two aims. The first one is to describe the major changes sponsored by the reform and the problems it pretends to address with them. The second, to discuss how the reform combines with other decisions taken by the government regarding the labour market, in what could be considered a program of modernization and upgrading of the Spanish labour market. Although is too early to make a full evaluation of the reform, the paper presents some of its short-term effects and discusses its potential shortcomings.  

 

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2022-07-14

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Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente, R. (2022). A primer on the 2022 Spanish Labour Reform. International Review of Economic Policy-Revista Internacional De Política Económica, 4(1), 62–80. https://doi.org/10.7203/IREP.4.1.24764
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