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Spanish economic research foundation, Fundacion de Estudios de Economia Aplicada.

Fedea, with BBVA, found on 17 September 2026 that Spain's AI use splits sharply by education, echoing a euro-area-wide divide.

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Key Question

Why is Spain's most AI-exposed job segment also its fastest-growing?

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#20 26 Aug

Found Spanish AI exposure concentrated among higher-educated workers

AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Half of euro-area workers now use AI
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Background

Fedea, the Fundacion de Estudios de Economia Aplicada, is a Spanish economic research foundation. On 17 September 2026 a research bulletin it produced with BBVA found that Spanish AI use splits sharply by education. That mirrored a wider euro-area pattern the European Central Bank had reported days before: use up from 26% in 2024 to 52% in 2026. The ECB figure stood at 61% for university-educated workers against 37% for the less educated .

The foundation's work here sits within its usual REMIT of applied economic research on labour markets, rather than a one-off intervention.

The bundle does not give Fedea's own numbers for Spain, only that its findings matched the ECB's education split. This page will ADD specifics once they are available.

Common Questions
What is Fedea?
Fedea, the Fundacion de Estudios de Economia Aplicada, is a Madrid-based economic think tank set up in 1985 to research and publish on economic and social policy.Source: official
What did Fedea find about AI and education levels in Spain's job market?
Fedea's quarterly labour bulletin, produced with BBVA Research, found more than 40% of Spain's higher-educated workers are in occupations highly exposed to generative AI, against about 15% of workers with lower-secondary education or less.Source: Fedea / BBVA Research
Who founded Fedea?
Fedea was set up in 1985 on the initiative of Luis Angel Rojo, then director of studies at the Bank of Spain.Source: official
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