Opinion

Mind the gap

Mark Nayler

...big problem with unemployment - an issue that should be a top priority for both local administrations and the incoming national government. The INE project found that ten of Spain's richest neighbourhoods are in the Madrid region. Most affluent of ... task, but there is clearly one area that is in urgent need of attention: unemployment. Research presented last year by Eurostat, the European Union's statistics agency, showed that Spain is home to five of the worst affected areas in Europe when it comes ... to joblessness, Andalucía being one of them. This year's data shows that little has changed in that respect: the three highest unemployment rates in Spain are in the Andalusian municipalities of Linares (32.8%), La Línea de la Concepción (29.9% and

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Unemployment rose by 7,900 in Malaga province in the first three months of this year

JUAN SOTO

The first quarter of this year brought bad news for employment in the province. According to figures from the EPA (active population survey), 7,900 more people registered as unemployed between 1 January and 31 March, and the unemployment rate rose ... for work, compared with 129,000 at the end of last year. The number of people with jobs was also lower, by 3,000. The rise in unemployment was partly due to the increase in the active population (+4,800) and the drop in people in work (-3,000). The ... per cent, behind only Extremadura and the Basque Country. It is also one of the regions where employment rose in the past year, ahead of Catalonia and Madrid. The Malaga business confederation said it is normal for unemployment to rise in the first

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Unemployment rate in Spain at the end of 2018 was 14.45%

SUR

Spain closed 2018 with an unemployment rate of 14.45 per cent, according to government data published this week. The data is from the EPA active- population survey, published every three months and seen as more reliable than the monthly social ... employment and make people more employable" . In Malaga province, including the Costa del Sol, unemployment is now at 16.56 per cent.

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The Malaga economy is withstanding international tensions and growing fast

NURIA TRIGUERO

...reduction in unemployment. In absoloute numbers, this would mean more than 12,000 fewer unemployed compared with the average for last year (149,000). It is more difficult to predict the rate of unemployment, because this depends not only on how many jobs ... are created but also movement in the active population in Malaga. Recently there have been continual increases in the number of people looking for work, which has slowed down the improvement in the unemployment rate. However, Felisa Becerra of the AEA ... says that if "the current rate of economic growth continues, the unemployment rate will also visibly reduce as well". In the first quarter of this year, the rate was 17.5 per cent. The AEA report quantifies the growth in the Malaga economy during the

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Unemployment rises in September as summer ends

NURIA TRIGUERO

September saw a predictable rise in unemployment in Malaga province and the Costa del Sol as the peak summer tourist season ended. Official data released on Tuesday shows that there were 2,780 more unemployed in the area, an increase of two per ... unemployment or social security offices. The recent decline in the number of unemployed appears to be ending, with the fresh data supporting the trend seen in August of a slowdown in job creation. Service industries were chiefly to blame for the rise in

LifeStyle

11 January 1933: The savage massacre in Casas Viejas

Tony Bryant

...many inhabitants faced year-round unemployment and near starvation. The Spanish journalist, Ramón J. Sender, claimed the poor were "maddened with hunger like stray dogs". One of the provinces where the worst riots took place was Cadiz, so the

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Job creation on the Costa slowed down this spring, quarterly data shows

NURIA TRIGUERO

...on Spanish unemployment. Despite the period traditionally being good for jobless figures, as the peak tourist season starts, the province only had 2,500 more people in work compared to the period from January to June. This compared to 37,000 in the

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Unemployment (EPA)

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A black August for unemployment as numbers paying in to social security drop

L. PALACIOS / J. SOTO

The end of the summer holidays brought some stark data on the numbers of registered unemployed and those in work last month. As short-term contracts in tourist resorts ended, the traditional decrease in those in work was significantly larger across

Opinion

The voice of statistics

Héctor Barbotta

...which tourism brings for our future prosperity, our status as an economic motor... but once a month the unemployment figures are released to warn us, like a voice of conscience with the vocation of a spoilsport, that the model doesn't work. Sometimes ... obliged to reduce their prices to avoid having empty rooms in August. Some figures have value: those regarding unemployment - Malaga, the second province in Spain in which unemployment has increased most; Marbella, once again bordering 10,000 unemployed - ... keep reminding us, like Marcus Aurelius' slave, about the vulnerability and weakness of our economy. The mad months are coming now. The ones when unemployment shoots up again, until the next summer comes knocking at the door. Then we will once again