Esta es la respuesta de The Economist a la Ley de Economía Sostenible de Rodríguez Zapatero: Unsustainable.
Mr Zapatero’s credibility was dented when he refused to admit the scale of Spain’s problems as it fell into recession. Even so, he believes he can steer the country back to growth. This week his government planned to unveil a
“sustainable economy” law, the main part of a strategy that looks forward to 2020. But the law will be long on good intentions and short on tough measures. Renewable energy, modest liberalisation and more training are likely to be on the list. Bold labour-market reforms to make it easier to fire workers will not be, to avoid upsetting Mr Zapatero’s trade-union friends. He prefers to rely on talks between the “social partners” that are unlikely to produce big change.
Spain’s two-tier labour system is inefficient as well as unfair. Half the workers are on permanent contracts that make them extremely hard (and costly) to fire. Most of the rest scrape by in a netherworld of short-term contracts, bouts of unemployment and the black market. Workers on short-term contracts were the first to lose their jobs when recession hit. As Elena Salgado, the finance minister, claims, this gives the system a certain flexibility. But it is bad for productivity. Inefficient workers on permanent contracts are protected. There is no incentive to train the young and the temporary.
Barcepundit, que la enlazaba antes que yo, se refiere también a otro artículo "anti-patriota" de Bloomberg.
