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Vivir por debajo de nuestras posibilidades
España es el país más desigual en Europa, junto a Portugal, Bulgaria y Letonia
Joaquín Estefanía 10 MAR 2013 - 18:21 CET
Living below our means
Spain is the most unequal country in Europe, along with Portugal, Bulgaria and Latvia
Joaquín Estefanía 10 MAR 2013 - 18:21 CET
They begin to elaborate the data that allow a thorough analysis of the effects of the long economic crisis in relation to citizen welfare (the ultimate goal of the economy) and the allocation of sacrifice and austerity within Spanish society . The balance can not be compromised: income per capita in our country is in terms similar to those of 2002, so that one can speak of a lost decade, without waiting to see what happens from here until the end of the recession , happen when it happens. In terms of inequality, it gets worse: according to Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Commission) Spain is the most unequal country in Europe with Portugal, Bulgaria and Latvia (places far beyond our level of income ), and above, for example, Greece.
These and many other comparisons can be seen in the First Report of Inequality in Spain, prepared for the Foundation by the team Alternatives professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Huertas and Jesus Ruiz-connecting with inequality studies were performed decades ago at the Fundación Argentaria (when Argentaria was a financial holding public). From reading can detach, among others, the following trends: the decline in welfare levels was much stronger in Spain than in most European Union countries, and has widened the gap of income between Spanish citizens on an accelerated, breaking in a very short time margin trend to moderation thereof that had occurred during most of the democratic era (especially until 1996).
Taxes and social protection reduce inequality half that in the Nordic countries
Faced with the idea that has intentionally tried to convey that the scale of the crisis has been such that its effects have spread across the board to all levels of society, data is overwhelming to the contrary: while rents have collapsed lowest, the highest have continued to grow, making it also faster than any other income group. Poverty has become simultaneously more intense (more poverty) and largest (affects more people). They are families in which the principal loses job earner, major hit by the recession.
The Inequality Report distinguishes four major causes that Spain is one of the countries most affected by poverty and inequality. The first is the dramatic job losses: unemployment has grown no less than 18 points (less than 8% in 2007 to 26.02% in 2012) in five years. Second, that the unemployment rate among the main breadwinners of households has reached a record high, passing over the same period from 6% to 21.4%. Third, the very significant changes in the wage structure, since the distance between employees with the highest incomes and lowest (temporary jobs, with little protection) increased significantly. Finally, and not least because it directly affects public policy, the limited capacity of the tax system and social protection stop combat rising inequality, when compared with other European countries, the reductive capacity of the inequality in Spain is almost half that of some Nordic countries and is still far from that observed in the main of our environment.
The study's authors remind that in the pre-crisis took no political capacity to approximate social spending at existing levels in European countries more powerful and reduce gaps citizens, concluding that contrary to a thousand times repeated like a mantra false, in the field of social protection we did was "live below our means." It was, therefore, to the economic crisis with a lack of safety nets to respond to the dramatic increase in social needs. The coverage provided is insufficient to contain the revenues under dramatic increase in unemployment.
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