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Latest publications on Working hours

Spain | Quarterly Labor Market Observatory 4Q2025

February 24, 2026

This issue of the OTMT reviews labour market developments using data available through the fourth quarter of 2025. We assess trends in the main aggregate indicators and estimate the scale and characteristics of irregular employment in Spain.

Spain | Productivity and reallocation of resources: A structural challenge

January 5, 2026

The Spanish economy is growing more through employment than productivity. The efficient allocation of resources (capital and labor) to more productive sectors is one of the structural challenges. There's an urgent need to boost investment, human capital, and AI, and remove barriers for the most productive companies to grow.

Spain | Employment and productivity after the pandemic

December 23, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an unprecedented disruption in economic activity in Spain. Although the recovery has returned to previous patterns in many respects, a detailed analysis of Spain's GDP and components reveals a more complex picture.

Spain | 4Q2023 Quarterly Labor Market Observatory

February 29, 2024

In this new issue of the OTMT, we analyze the evolution of the labor market up the fourth quarter of 2023. We take stock of the evolution of the main aggregate indicators to, a follow-up of the Labor Reform of 2021, voluntary resignations and quits, and young people according to the nationality of their parents.

Spain | Proposal to reduce the maximum legal working hours: incidence and potential impact

December 21, 2023

The objectives of this study aim to gauge the impact of the reduction in the legal maximum working hours, pinpoint potentially affected workers, estimate the macroeconomic repercussions, and propose economic policy measures to amplify the positive effects of the reform while mitigating the negative ones.

Spain | A labor market in transition

November 27, 2023

The latest Observatory published by BBVA Research, FEDEA and the Sagardoy Foundation shows a labor market in transition in Spain. Job creation continues, but at a significantly slower pace than in the first half of the year.

Spain | 3Q2023 Quarterly Labor Market Observatory

November 20, 2023

In this new issue of the OTMT, we analyze the evolution of the labor market up to November 2023. We take stock of the evolution of the main aggregate indicators and focus on the monitoring of the 2022 Labor Market Reform, unemployment among people aged 50 and over, and employment and the environment.

Spain | 2Q2023 Quarterly Labour Market Observatory

September 22, 2023

In this new issue of OTMT we analyse the evolution of the labour market up to September 2023. We take stock of the evolution of the main aggregate indicators and focus on the monitoring of the Labour Reform, the occupational mismatch of university workers, and the education and training of self-employed and entrepreneurs.

Spain | 1Q2023 Quarterly Labour Market Observatory

June 1, 2023

We analyse the evolution of the labour market until May 2023 in this edition of OTMT. We take stock of the evolution of the main aggregate indicators and focus on the evolution of employment and effective working hours and gender differences in occupations and working hours.

Spain | A recovery with more employment than hours worked

May 16, 2023

One of the most relevant characteristics of the recovery of advanced economies and Spain since the COVID-19 crisis has been the intensity of job creation and the resilience of the labor market. The balance is clearly favorable.

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