1. Effectiveness of Minimum Income Schemes in access to employment
Lessons for Spain
Jonathan Bradshaw
Madrid
6 October 2016

2. Not easy to learn lessons from abroad
Work conditionality has always been an important aspect of UK social assistance.
Arguably strengthened recently – out of work lone parents, disabled people
In work - spouses, hours supplied
Labour demand rather than supply likely to be the driver of (un)employment rates in Spain.
?Employment costs (pensions) for employers

3. Work conditionality
High work conditionality is oppression in the absence of jobs.
Criticism of sanctions regime in the UK
Food banks
Non claiming
“I, Daniel Blake” – Ken Loach film winner of the Palme d’Or
Suicides

4. Main difference UK Spain
No in-work family benefits in Spain
They
Enhance low wages
Increase work incentives
Enable out of work social assistance to be more generous
Reduce in-work poverty
?Increase fertility

5. Fertility rate 2012 and % GDP spent on family benefits and services

6. Couple plus two children social assistance versus one earner on half average earnings OECD Tax/ben 2014 National currencies.

7. Couple plus two children social assistance versus one earner on half average earnings OECD Tax/ben 2014 % average wage

8. Net income

9. Notional replacement rate

10. Replacement rate less housing benefit

11. Lone parent plus two children social assistance versus one earner on half average earnings OECD Tax/ben 2014 National currencies.

12. Balance Between employers and the state
In the UK National Living Wage and cuts to family benefits shifting it to employment
In Spain state not helping families with children
Thus social assistance for families with children very low