Practice question · Multiple choice
Spain’s temporary employment share fell sharply after the 2021 labour reform, and sociologists disagree about what the fall represents. What is the substance of that disagreement?
Hints
- Ask how a worker on a permanent-discontinuous contract is counted in the months when they are not working.
- The same registry can be read as a change in substance or as a change in category.
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C. Genuinely more stable jobs versus reclassifying seasonal labour as permanent contracts
Why
A permanent-discontinuous worker counts as permanent year-round, including in the off-season, so a shift into that contract lowers measured temporality without necessarily changing the rhythm of anyone’s working year. Defenders point to longer average tenure and fewer registrations; the honest position is that the two effects coexist and their relative size is still being estimated.
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