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www.imf.org | #IMFeurope HOW TO CREATE JOBS IN SPAIN SINCE 2007, ALMOST 4 MILLION JOBS have been lost in Spain as the bursting of the country’s housing bubble, the global financial crisis, and the euro area crisis combined to create a perfect storm. The challenge now is to get these jobs back. The IMF thinks it can be done, if everyone contributes. Here is how. GOVERNMENT Cut taxes on employing the less skilled to encourage companies to hire them • Improve training and job-finding services for the unemployed COMPANIES AND WORKERS •Continue wage moderation so that companies have more money to hire the unemployed and invest in their equipment EUROPE • Continue integrating Europe’s banking system so Spanish companies can borrow on the same terms as German companies ECB • Make sure inflation in the euro area is not too low so there is more demand for Spain’s exports • Make sure banks are strong so they can lend more BANKS •Build up capital so they can lend more •Restructure the debt of insolvent, but viable, companies to help them grow

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HOW TO CREATE JOBS IN SPAINSINCE 2007, ALMOST 4 MILLION JOBS have been lost in Spain as the bursting of the country’s housing bubble, the global financial crisis, and the euro

area crisis combined to create a perfect storm. The challenge now is to get these jobs back. The IMF thinks it can be done, if everyone contributes. Here is how.

GOVERNMENT • Cut taxes on employing the less

skilled to encourage companies to hire them

• Improve training and job-finding services for the unemployed

COMPANIES AND WORKERS•Continue wage moderation so that companies have more

money to hire the unemployed and invest in their equipment

EUROPE• Continue integrating

Europe’s banking system so Spanish companies can borrow on the same terms as German companies

ECB• Make sure inflation in the euro

area is not too low so there is more demand for Spain’s exports

• Make sure banks are strong so they can lend more

BANKS• Build up capital so they

can lend more • Restructure the debt of

insolvent, but viable, companies to help them grow