5. Public Investment and Structural Transformation in Spain

Ignacio Alvarez was the Secretary of State for Social Rights of the Government of Spain between January 2020 and November 2023. He holds a PhD in International Economics from the University Complutense of Madrid. He is currently Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has also worked as a Research Associate at the Complutense Institute of International Studies (ICEI), Visiting Professor of Labor Economics at the Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED) and Assistant Professor at the University of Valladolid. He has been visiting researcher at the University Paris VII-Denis Diderot, at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management and at the University of South-Eastern Norway, and has participated in several European Union research projects (“Inclusive Growth through Wage Coordination”; “Collectively Agreed Wages in the New European Economic Governance”; “Collectively Agreed Wages in Europe”), as well as in several national projects. His research currently focuses on the study of the relationship between income distribution, demand, and economic growth. His academic articles have been published, among other journals, in the Socio-Economic Review, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Review of Keynesian Economics, Work, Employment and Society, International Labour Review, and the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.