This Selected Issues paper focuses on labor productivity dynamics in Spain. Labor productivity has been a long …-standing structural challenge in Spain. Productivity performance has been weak across several dimensions: labor productivity levels are … productivity in Spain exhibited a counter-cyclical pattern driven by the large reduction in employment. Total factor productivity …

This 2022 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic activity in Spain has remained resilient despite the new … risks materialize. Spain is making progress on its ambitious reform agenda and the execution of investments under the …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes Spain’s sustainable growth rate. It sheds some light on Spain’s medium-term growth … experience of countries in the aftermath of financial crisis. The paper suggests Spain is likely to face a long period of …

This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic growth in Spain has resumed, and unemployment is falling … welcomed the improving Spanish economy. They have stressed that labor market reform should be accompanied by product and …

KEY ISSUES Context. The economy is growing at a moderate pace. Abstracting from the impact of new large-scale natural … (Haredi) populations in the labor force to bolster the economy’s long-term potential and to reduce poverty and inequality …