low levels of education. There are two crucial policy priorities to improve employment prospects for youth in Spain. First … Paper relates to the 2012 OECD Economic Survey of Spain (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/spain). …

This paper provides both descriptive and empirical evidence about the main youth labour market problems in Spain. Using … the experiences of other EU economies as a benchmark, we document the performance of Spain as regards a wide set of youth … explain the difficulties faced by the Spanish youth labour market (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/Spain). …