Publications

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Latest publications on GDP per working-age person (WAP)

Spain | The Cyclical Behavior of GDP and Consumption up to the Second Quarter of 2024

24 October 2024

This Observatory evaluates the factors explaining the cyclical behavior of GDP and private consumption in Spain up to Q2 2024. It analyzes the supply and demand factors behind the GDP per working-age person (PET) gap of -1.3 pp from its trend level and the weaker performance of consumption compared to pre-pandemic levels.

Spain | Business cycle, employment and productivity in 2023

25 April 2024

This Observatory evaluates the factors that explain the cyclical behavior of GDP in Spain, full-time equivalent employment and productivity up to 4Q2023.

Spain | The Spanish economy in the first year of the Ukrainian war

27 April 2023

This Observatory evaluates the factors explaining the behavior of the Spanish economy during 2022, and estimates the structural shocks behind the growth of GDP per working-age person (WAP), the GDP deflator and real wages.

Spain | The Spanish economy facing the challenge of inflation

21 October 2022

This Economic Watch evaluates the factors that explain the behavior of the Spanish economy between the third quarter of 2020 and the second quarter of 2022, and estimates the structural shocks behind the growth of GDP per working-age person (WAP), the GDP deflator and real wages.

Spain | Pros and cons of the labor reform

3 January 2022

The new labor reform was achieved with a social consensus. It clears up uncertainties, makes several improvements and avoids going back on key progress made in the last decade. But it is not ambitious enough to solve the structural problems of the Spanish labor market.

Spain | Factors explaining the economic cycle a year on from the Great Lockdown

26 October 2021

This Economic Watch updates the analysis of the factors determining the economic cycle in Spain, with the information available up to the second quarter of 2021, including the major revision of GDP and its components carried out by INE in september.

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