ABSTRACT
Spain has witnessed dramatic levels of unemployment despite numerous legal provisions guaranteeing the right to all aspects of employment. The Labour Force Survey for the fourth quarter of 2007 recorded 18.7% unemployment among workers aged under 25, compared with 56.9% in the first quarter of 2013, and 46.5% in the second quarter of 2016. According to studies carried out by the European Council, between 2007 and 2013, youth unemployment rates at least doubled in 12 countries of the European Union (EU), Spain being one of them. Any investigation of the causes of youth unemployment requires an analysis of the socioeconomic situation in Spain from a range of perspectives. Spain's (GDP) for 2015 is substantially worse than that recorded in 2006. Training issue is an especially sensitive one in Spain, as shown by EUROSTAT (2017) statistics, revealing that Spain has higher dropout rates than the rest of the EU-28 countries.
