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OECD (2007)
Jobs for Youth: Spain
Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Press release (extract) :
Spain has made significant progress over the past decade in improving employment prospects of young people, but there is still much to be done to improve the regulations that affect young people’s chances of finding jobs, according to a new OECD report. The report, “ Jobs for Youth: Spain ”, notes that the proportion of young people aged 16-24 who have a job has risen by more than 50% over the past decade – in sharp contrast to the OECD average which was stable over the same period.
Youth unemployment and the incidence of long-term unemployment have more than halved over the past decade. But the youth unemployment rate, at almost 18% in 2006, is still more than 3 percentage points above the OECD average. In particular, young Spanish women have one of the highest unemployment rates in the OECD. And, while the incidence of temporary work among young people with jobs has tended to decrease, it was still 66% in 2006, over twice the corresponding OECD average of about 30%. As in other OECD countries, many young people enter the labour market with a temporary contract. However, Spain is unique in that young people tend to stay on temporary contracts for a very long period of time, interspersed with frequent spells of unemployment when moving from one contract to the next. Several barriers need to be removed to further improve young people’s labour market prospects in Spain.
First, as in other OECD countries, the labour market is becoming more and more selective and the lack of relevant skills brings a higher risk of unemployment. In Spain, one in four young people leave school with less than upper secondary education – one of the highest drop-out rates among OECD countries. Links between the education system and work are weak and work-based learning is limited to students in vocational education – whose performance in terms of access to employment after leaving school is relatively good. Furthermore, strict employment protection for people with permanent contracts has contributed to a marked segmentation between temporary and permanent jobs in the Spanish labour market, negatively affecting the career prospects and training opportunities of young people.
Communiqué de presse, résumé et recommandations en français : http://www.oecd.org/document/20/0,2340,fr_2649_37457_38365588_1_1_1_37457,00.html
Spain has made significant progress over the past decade in improving employment prospects of young people, but there is still much to be done to improve the regulations that affect young people’s chances of finding jobs, according to a new OECD report. The report, “ Jobs for Youth: Spain ”, notes that the proportion of young people aged 16-24 who have a job has risen by more than 50% over the past decade – in sharp contrast to the OECD average which was stable over the same period.
Youth unemployment and the incidence of long-term unemployment have more than halved over the past decade. But the youth unemployment rate, at almost 18% in 2006, is still more than 3 percentage points above the OECD average. In particular, young Spanish women have one of the highest unemployment rates in the OECD. And, while the incidence of temporary work among young people with jobs has tended to decrease, it was still 66% in 2006, over twice the corresponding OECD average of about 30%. As in other OECD countries, many young people enter the labour market with a temporary contract. However, Spain is unique in that young people tend to stay on temporary contracts for a very long period of time, interspersed with frequent spells of unemployment when moving from one contract to the next. Several barriers need to be removed to further improve young people’s labour market prospects in Spain.
First, as in other OECD countries, the labour market is becoming more and more selective and the lack of relevant skills brings a higher risk of unemployment. In Spain, one in four young people leave school with less than upper secondary education – one of the highest drop-out rates among OECD countries. Links between the education system and work are weak and work-based learning is limited to students in vocational education – whose performance in terms of access to employment after leaving school is relatively good. Furthermore, strict employment protection for people with permanent contracts has contributed to a marked segmentation between temporary and permanent jobs in the Spanish labour market, negatively affecting the career prospects and training opportunities of young people.
Communiqué de presse, résumé et recommandations en français : http://www.oecd.org/document/20/0,2340,fr_2649_37457_38365588_1_1_1_37457,00.html
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