"Two kinds of training contracts have co–existed in Spain for many years: work–placement contracts and job–training contracts, and their legislative development has brought to the forefront the tension between their training objective and their potential as instruments of employment policy. These contracts usually provide forms of employment designed for young people to facilitate access to the labour market and provide on–the–job training. However, they have not always been limited to young people, nor have they ensured training for workers, especially in the case of job–training contracts. This paper provides an overview of the transformations that training contracts have undergone in the Spanish system with special attention to the groups they are designed for."

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