The distributive pattern of the Spanish economy

Buendía, Luis; Simarro, Ricardo Molero; Arroyo, Francisco J.

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“…Moreover, the welfare system in Spain exacerbates labour market inequalities as it provides good protection for those in regular and stable employment but not for those with more discontinuous employment patterns or the unemployed. This generates a strong dualization of protected insiders and vulnerable outsiders (Buendía et al, 2018; Fernandez-Albertos and Manzano, 2012). Hence, overall, the restrictions on welfare provision from the Spanish and Catalan governments, alongside the political and economic limitations of Barcelona's City Council, limit the scope of action of this institution (Laín and Torrens, 2019).…”

Section: The B-mincome Project and The Welfare Context In Cataloniamentioning

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The policy and political consequences of the B-Mincome pilot project

García

2022

European Journal of Social Security

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The idea of universal basic income is recieving increasing attention in the political, media and public agendas. This policy proposal constitutes a radical departure from the orthodox welfare rationale of giving to those in need, or attaching conditions to welfare support. Given the permutation that a UBI presents, many pilot projects and field experiments are being carried out globally to test the effects of this novel policy idea. Key questions arise from these developments: are the lessons learned from these experiments being fed back into the policy process? Are the pilot project results guiding and informing policymakers? Overall, can we observe any political effects of such scientific efforts? I address these questions through a qualitative case study analysis of the B-Mincome project. Through an in-depth analysis of this pilot, some of the key factors influencing the (limited) policy and political effects of the pilot project have been identified. The B-Mincome case study shows that the barriers to policy change were in place well before the pilot, and evidently, remained unaltered by it. The political landscape in Barcelona's City Council, its economic powers and institutional context were unchanged by the pilot, and in fact shaped the pilot design, moving it away from the UBI proposal. The B-Mincome experience illustrates the need to accommodate the pilot design to the politics and economics of the experiment, and shows the unintended consequences that such an adaptation of the pilot design may have in relation to its original objectives. In the case of Barcelona, this has meant a move away from a UBI-style pilot design, resulting in very limited effects on the debate or policy design of cash transfers, having a greater policy impact on active polices instead. However, by taking a broader look at Spanish and Catalan politics, our analysis has shown that unexpected factors may end up triggering a debate much more effectively than a pilot project.

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The policy and political consequences of the B-Mincome pilot project

García

2022

European Journal of Social Security

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“…However, having attained significant achievements (singularly, quasi-universal access to health and education), the application of the Maastricht criteria drew the homologation process relative to the European core to a sudden halt. Since the mid-1990s the main aim of successive reforms has been to achieve fiscal balance, thus consolidating a fragmented, geographically uneven welfare system, with a limited redistributive reach (Buendía, Molero-Simarro, and Murillo 2018; Guillén 2010; Rodriguez-Cabrero 2011) in which a low tax base was translated into public services underdevelopment rather than into fiscal deficits (Banyuls and Recio 2012).…”

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“…First, stagnating real wages coexisted with an impressive upsurge of employment of more than 8 million new jobs, which allowed the wage share to remain fairly constant throughout the whole period (Buendía, Molero-Simarro, and Murillo 2018), in turn helping to disguise the increasing precarization of labor relations and the temporal strains that Spanish workers were ultimately subjected to (Prieto and Miguélez 2009). When analyzing the sectorial distribution of the new employment created, the reinforcement of the productive specialization pattern described above is made clear (see table 1).…”

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The Contradictory Evolution of “Mediterranean” Neoliberalism in Spain, 1995–2008

Araújo

2020

Review of Radical Political Economics

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This paper uses social structures of accumulation theory in combination with Ernesto Laclau’s discourse theory in order to analyze the institutional mechanisms that sustained the long economic expansion of the Spanish economy between 1995 and 2008. Productive deficiencies endogenously gave way to several trends that, despite displaying a highly contradictory character when considered in isolation, managed to coalesce into a relatively coherent whole for more than a decade, namely, a massive housing bubble, an explosion of private debt in the face of real wage stagnation, and family economies being submitted to increasing strains. Moreover, their joint occurrence prevented their inherently conflictive nature from acquiring a political expression liable to undo the institutional structure itself, so that a social order was successfully reproduced throughout the whole expansion phase.

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The Long-Term Vulnerabilities of Spanish Capitalism in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Political Economy Approach

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Buendía

2022

International Journal of Political Economy

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The distributive pattern of the Spanish economy

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The policy and political consequences of the B-Mincome pilot project

The policy and political consequences of the B-Mincome pilot project

The Contradictory Evolution of “Mediterranean” Neoliberalism in Spain, 1995–2008

The Long-Term Vulnerabilities of Spanish Capitalism in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Political Economy Approach

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