Spain’s Recovery and Resilience Plan: Addressing Structural Challenges in the Labour Market
Gonzalo López Molina, David Martínez Turégano, Victor Pedrero Bohnet y José Salvado Garcia
Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2026
Spain’s labour market has long combined structural unemployment well above the EU average with exceptionally high temporary employment, weak activation policies and persistent skills mismatches. Spain’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, initiated in 2021, sought to address these accumulated weaknesses through a comprehensive package of regulatory reforms and flanking measures across four interconnected pillars: i) reducing the excessive use of temporary contracts, ii) rebalancing firms’ capacity to manage cyclical and structural shocks, iii) modernising the collective bargaining framework and iv) strengthening labour rights and reforming active labour market policies, public employment services and vocational education and training. | descarga pdf