Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110092 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8942
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper delves into the recent events that led to the formation of the housing bubble in Spain and the resulting structural change that is arguably needed to put the economy back into the right track. For this purpose we calibrate a model with different equilibria descriptive of the labor markets in Spain and France, where the unemployment rates went from the same initial spot to very different levels. In addition to this, we run two counterfactual analyses that throw some more light on the performance of the Spanish labor market and the Spanish housing bubble. Our results suggest that the unemployment rate in Spain has jumped to much higher levels while switching between equilibria or, what is the same, because of structural change. Moreover, our counterfactuals indicate that, first, the Spanish flexibilization reform has fallen short of its own goals and, second, there has been an important misdirection of resources into the construction industry mainly fueled by excessively low real interest rates.
Subjects: 
structural change
bubble
unemployment
interest rate
productivity
JEL: 
J64
O57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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