摘要:This paper analyses recent gross worker flows in Spain using EPA (Labour Force
Survey) and INEM (National Employment Office) data. These databases show significant
differences both in the levels and trends of gross worker flows in Spain. Focusing on EPA
data, unemployment inflows and outflows are large and similar to those which characterise
labour markets with high dynamic efficiency. However, this aggregate behaviour hides a
strong segmentation of the Spanish labour market between workers with temporary
contracts, the more dynamic sector, and workers with permanent contracts, with much
smaller flows. The cyclical behaviour of flows is similar to that found in other European
countries: inflows into unemployment are procyclical and inflows into employment and
outflows from employment are countercyclical. On the other hand, outflows from
unemployment are countercyclical, due to the high percentage of temporary workers.