Economists and Fedea propose to set more hard conditions so that the unemployed can reject a job

Among the proposals, the President of the General Council of Economists, Valentín Pich, highlighted the need for greater coordination between administrations to prevent passive employment policies from discouraging the job search. The need to strengthen the co -responsibility of the unemployed, demanding effective compliance with the commitment to search for active and continuous employmentfor what economists and Fedea analysts demand the establishment of strictest conditions when rejecting the appropriate job offers that are presented to them from public employment services.

«It does not help the lax definition of the activation commitment of unemployed persons and adequate job offer to stimulate the employment search for unemployment people. Incentives to promote collaboration between administrations are misaligned (who controls compliance with obligations does not pay the benefits, and he who pays does not control), ”he said Miguel Ángel GarcíaDoctor of Economics, Professor of Applied Economics (URJC) and associate researcher at Fedea.

Along the same line, Salvador GuillermoDirector of Studies and Economics for the Promotion of Labor and Counselor of the Higher Council of Statistics of the INE in representation of the Council of Economists, stressed that the improvement of employment reflected in «The current situation of public policies of employment in Spain« is not due so much to the effectiveness of these policies, but to the inertia of economic growth. And it asserts that “employment has grown mainly due to impulse from the private sector, although they already face difficulties in covering vacancies, even in little qualified profiles.” In this context, he proposes the impulse from the public services of «Employment shock plans»who pay special attention to long -term unemployed, providing them with Formative and psychological supportin order to facilitate its reinstatement to the labor market.

Given the fragmentation of the current regulatory framework that hinders effective management, by establishing a separation between the administration of economic benefits (in charge of the SEPE) and active employment policies (competence of the autonomous communities), experts warn of a Institutional uncoordination: “Who finances benefits does not control their execution and who manages active policies lacks competences on financial aid.” All this manifests the need to strengthen the link with the productive fabric, in order to precisely know the needs of companies to design more effective strategies in employment incentives.

At the opening of the act, Valentín Pich He stressed that if you want active employment policies to have a real impact on employability, it is essential that they are subject to Continuous evaluation processes that allow identifying what works and what should be corrected. In addition, it considers that training policies must be closely aligned with the needs of the business fabric, so that they provide people with the competencies that the labor market really demands to facilitate their insertion.

For its part, Ángel de la Fuente has indicated that, more important than the norm is that there is a real commitment to provide public employment services for the necessary mediaas well as the success in the design and management of their services and their work tools, “which should be modernized to more efficiently exploit the abundant information available.”