Ideas, instituciones y ciclo económico:las políticas de formación en España

Abstract

This article analyses Spanish training policies from the mid-eighties underlying the relevance of political factors in explaining the reforms that have taken place. One of the basic arguments is that whereas institutional contexts and the economic cycle had an influence on policies, however, factors related to the models that governments have about the functioning of the labour market, the causes of unemployment and the determinants and effects of training, have greater explanatory power.