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The third wave of the pandemic hits Andalucía's unemployment figures hard

NURIA TRIGUERO

...unemployed, bringing the total to 204,293. The province had not seen this level of unemployment since 2014, when it was still beginning to emerge from what was then considered the worst crisis in its history. In addition, there were another 7,473 added to the ... ERTE furloughing scheme in the province, taking the total to 41,516, the highest since July 2020. Malaga is placed second among the Andalusian provinces for the highest rise in unemployment in February. The top position is taken by Jaén, where the ... olive harvesting season has come to an end. The only province in the region that didn’t see a rise in the unemployed was Huelva, mainly due to the start of the strawberry picking season. The unemployment trend for Malaga province.SUR In the case of

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622,600 jobs in Spain lost to the coronavirus crisis in 2020

LUCÍA PALACIOS

The worldwide coronavirus pandemic has ravaged Spain’s jobs market. In 2020, 622,600 jobs were lost and unemployment increased by more than half a million people due to confinement and mobility restriction measures imposed to stop the spread of ... second wave. But even so, ten months after the pandemic broke out, only half of the lost jobs have been recovered after almost a million jobs were lost suddenly between March and April. The unemployment rate continues to climb and now exceeds the 16 ... per cent barrier nationally. The news ends a period of six consecutive years of job creation. Similarly, the rise in unemployment of 527,000 people in 2020 ends a seven-year period of falls. The unemployment rate rose by more than two points to

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Malaga province exceeds the 200,000 unemployed barrier

NURIA TRIGUERO

The last time that Malaga province had more than 200,000 people registered as unemployed was in 2014 and the province was beginning to recover after the worst crisis in its history. Every year since then, unemployment has been falling to a greater ... when another 4,576 people knocked on the door of the employment services according to data from Spain's Social Security system. The first month of the year unemployment figures usually rise after seasonal contracts for Christmas and sales campaigns ... end. However, this time the January slope is steeper than ever due to the pandemic activity, which keeps the tourism sector in a coma and the hospitality sector in a semi-vegetative condition. Unemployment has risen in all sectors of the Malaga

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Unemployment climbs to over 16 per cent as Covid-19 effect continues to grow

L. PALACIOS / N. TRIGUERO

The unemployment rate in Spain reached 16.26 per cent at the end of September. This is according to the government's latest active population survey (EPA, Encuesta de Población Activa), published every three months. The regular survey is seen as ... the most reliable study on the real level of unemployment in Spain and is used by the EU to compare it with other countries. At the end of last month, the number of people out of work stood at 3,722,900. This was half a million more than a year ... tourism in the area. Locally there were over 180,000 out of work, a figure not seen since 2017. The provincial unemployment rate, according to the EPA survey, was 22.6 per cent, as of the end of September. The survey also shows there were almost 31,000

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Junta announces a 400-million-euro package to protect jobs and help the hospitality industry

Héctor Barbotta

...assessment of the economic crisis unleashed by the pandemic in the region and stressed the financial and unemployment data this time is better in Andalucía than the national average. Moreno said the figures are a consequence of the measures that have been

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23 October 2013: Bank of Spain announces end of recession

Jennie Rhodes

The positive tone continued on Thursday 24 October with updated unemployment figures; the rate in Malaga province had fallen, albeit to a still depressing 34 per cent. In Spain the figure was just under 26 per cent. According to the EPA (active ... population survey) results published on 24 October, unemployment in Spain fell by 72,800 in the third quarter of 2013, taking the total down to 5,904,700; a reduction of 1.2 per cent on the previous quarter. Then finance minister, Luis de Guindos, told King ... per cent. By 2014, Spain was enjoying economic growth and an influx of tourists helped boost the economy and lower unemployment rates.

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Improvements to Costa homes surge during pandemic but big-build projects stall

Ivan Gelibter

...very harsh economic crisis brought by the pandemic. Marbella and Torremolinos, dependent on new Urban Plans "These figures are also supported by the latest employment data. There has been an increase in unemployment in all sectors, just like the

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April Social Security data shows another significant rise in unemployment on the Costa

nuria Triguero

According to government Social Security affiliation data for April published this week, 8,683 more people joined the jobless queue in Malaga province, including the Costa del Sol, last month. The figure excludes many thousands more furloughed or o

Opinion

It's all relative

Mark Nayler

unemployment rate. In its worst case scenario, the Bank of Spain envisages public debt rising to 119% of GDP this year, possibly reducing (in its most optimistic projection) to 112% next year. The Bank's gloomiest forecast for unemployment sees it hitting a ... two other key economic indicators were already in the red: public debt hovered at just under 100% of GDP and at 14%, unemployment remained the second highest in the EU after Greece. These two statistics were cause for concern long before C19 came ... course, if Pedro Sánchez's Socialist government can ensure that, despite the pandemic, public debt and unemployment don't deviate too much from their current levels (to use a somewhat imprecise benchmark), that would be an achievement in itself; but it

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