Employment Policies and Post-Crisis Local Governance in the Canary Islands

Abstract

The objective is to analyze the role of employment policies in the creation of jobs, entrepreneurship and the improvement of the standards of living of the population in Canary Islands.

Employment policies essentially refer to four types of public interventions such as agreeing on common standards, allocating resources that affect employment creation or its improvement, passive and active employment policies. These policies are oriented from the European level, regulated at state and regional level and applied locally, by a wide range of public and private operators.

In this report the main effects of the last crisis (2008-2013) on socioeconomic development throughout the archipelago, the impacts caused by the Covid pandemic and the challenges posed in post-crisis local governance.