Five Years of Spanish Labour Reform and its Labour Market Effects: Precarisation vs. Job Creation

[Resumo] Neste traballo analízanse os efectos da reforma laboral que se acometeu en España en 2012 para lle facer fronte á crise económica. Cinco anos despois a economía comeza a recuperarse, pero os efectos desta reforma configuran un novo escenario canto ás relacións laborais e a situación dos traballadores, coa precariedade, as desigualdades e a pobreza laboral como consecuencias adversas. Mediante unha metodoloxía de análise estatística descritiva, neste traballo presentamos e estudamos a evolución dos datos do mercado de traballo e doutras variables macroeconómicas como indicadores da deterioración da situación dos traballadores en España desde a reforma laboral. As conclusións indican que hai un efecto depresivo sobre as rendas do salario que limita a capacidade de compra e frea a recuperación efectiva do consumo de bens no medio ou longo prazo. Debúxase, xa que logo, unha situación de desigualdades sociais incompatible coa sociedade do benestar, que impide unha recuperación equilibrada da demanda interna[Abstract] This paper analyses the effects of Spanish labour reform, undertaken in 2012, for facing the economic crisis. Five years later, the economic environment begins to recover, but the effects of this reform conduct to a new scenario in labour relations and the situation of workers. The precariousness, the inequalities, and the working poverty are some of the adverse consequences. Through a descriptive statistical analysis methodology, the evolution of labour market data and other macroeconomic variables is presented and studied as indicators of the deterioration of the situation of workers in Spain, from this labour reform. The findings indicate that there is a depressive effect on wage income which limits the purchasing power and inhibits the effective recovery of the consumption of goods in the medium or long term. Moreover, a situation of social inequalities is drawn and this is not compatible with the welfare society. In addition, this situation prevents a balanced recovery of domestic deman