## Spain: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, November 13, 2020_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: November 13, 2020
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513560984.002

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### Summary
- Publication date: November 13, 2020
- Core message: The COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate Spain’s already large inclusion gap. Responding in the recovery with policies that support social objectives should be a key priority and calls for several structural changes.
- Primary focus areas:
  - Address the fragmented labor market.
  - Tackle pressures on rental-housing affordability.
  - Lower the gender pay gap.

### Key findings and drivers
- The paper summarizes some of the main drivers behind social dispersion, which pre-dates the COVID-19 crisis.
- The COVID-19 shock is expected to worsen existing inclusion challenges rather than create wholly new ones.
- Subject tags provided: Gender, Gender inequality, Labor, Labor markets, Minimum wages, Women.

### Policy options and recommendations
- Emphasize recovery policies that support social objectives and reduce dispersion.
- Structural changes are called for to:
  - Reform and reduce fragmentation in the labor market.
  - Address rental-housing affordability and related pressures.
  - Reduce the gender pay gap through targeted measures.

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## Content in this bundle

- **Spain: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 20/299; October 26, 2020**
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_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2020/11/12/spain-selected-issues-49884_