Sunday, November 29, 2009

El enfermo de Europa

España, por supuesto. Con sus casi 20 puntos de desempleo y 10 de deficit. Aca un par de parrafos de este articulo de The Economist de esta semana,
Spain’s two-tier labour system is inefficient as well as unfair. Half the workers are on permanent contracts that make them extremely hard (and costly) to fire. Most of the rest scrape by in a netherworld of short-term contracts, bouts of unemployment and the black market. Workers on short-term contracts were the first to lose their jobs when recession hit. As Elena Salgado, the finance minister, claims, this gives the system a certain flexibility. But it is bad for productivity. Inefficient workers on permanent contracts are protected. There is no incentive to train the young and the temporary.

No estaba al tanto con lo de la red de trenes de alta velocidad mas extensa de Europa. Una buena para Renfe ahi.

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