After steady employment growth since the 1990s, Spain has experienced the sharpest increase in unemployment among OECD countries during the crisis, amplified by structural problems of the labour market. Very high de facto severance payment of permanent contracts has resulted in a rigid dual...

El presente documento constituye la segunda parte del estudio elaborado por los mismos autores, titulado “Políticas anticíclicas y propuesta para el cálculo de la recuperación fiscal de la inversión en infraestructura” publicado por la CEPAL en 2021, en el cual se introduce una...

Complex or poorly drafted regulations are more difficult for economic agents to implement, eroding economic efficiency. The literature has so far concentrated on the analysis of regulatory complexity as a phenomenon related to the “quantity” of norms. Regulation can also be complex because...