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3.888.137 people unemployed in Spain because of the pandemic

In Spain, according to the Moncloa webpage, unemployment has increased by 36.825 people in the month of December.


In 2020, there have been 3.888.137 unemployed in Spain because of Covid-19. In Euskadi, over 129.240 people have been unemployed and in Navarre, over 40.637. In Spain, according to the Moncloa webpage, unemployment has increased by 36.825 people in the month of December.


The sectors that had been the most affected in November were the farming sector, the services sector, the industry, and the construction. From these four, in Spain, the sector that struggled the most was the construction one. 18.496 people were unemployed in this sector. However, in Euskadi, the sector with the most unemployed was the industry sector with 7.002 people unemployed.


Elena Perez Barredo, the vice councilor of employment, said that the market of employment has shown evidence of resistance but that it doesn't hide the deep damage that has left in the weakness of the hiring quality and in some sectors, especially, on the hostelry. “The impact on employment has been minor than we expected, the economy is currently demonstrating a superior capacity of resistance than the forecast of March predicted”, added Perez.


The masculine unemployment by December was of 1.663.016 people in total since it went up 2,08%. This is a consequence of the unemployment increasing in masculinized sectors such as construction. The feminine unemployment ended up being of 2.225.121 women. The youth unemployment (below the age of 25) is the only one that descended in 2.722 people in December.


Considering the different autonomous communities, each of them has had different results. The Basque Country, for example, is the one where unemployment has gone down the most. This means that 3.196 people got employed in the month of December. In the Balearic Islands too, unemployment has decreased to 991 people. Catalunya, on the other hand, is the autonomous community with the most unemployed in December with more than 12.000 jobless people.



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