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Why Spain?

Highly qualified workforce

    • Workforce of 21.8 million people (Source: INE, Q4 2006)

    • Highly educated, Spain holds the 8th position among OECD countries in percentage of college students between 25-34 yrs

     

    Graph comparing university education of young people between 25 and 34 years old in Europe(OECD, 2006)

    • 1.4 million of college students and 199,400 college graduates in 2005 of which 22% hold a technical degree

     

     


    Fuente: INE, 2007



    • Multicultural, with a growing immigrant population

    • One of the highest scores in Europe for employment retention and business process outsourcing according to A.T. Kearney

     

    Source: AT Kearney Global Services location Index 2005
    (scale of 1 to 3) that evaluates cumulative business experience and skills, size and availability of labor force, education, language and employee retention.

     

    • High participation in lifelong learning, which improves competitiveness at work and prepares workforce to respond to change

     

    Source: Eurostat 2007

     

    • The labor market is in an ongoing process of increasing flexibility

     

    Graph showing growing labor market flexibility in Europe (from 0 to 6, increasingly restrictive)

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