The unemployment rate registered in the offices of public employment services fell by 7,452 people in February in relation to the previous month, which represents a decrease of 0.27% in percentage terms, as published this Wednesday by the Ministry of Labor and Social economy. For its part, Social Security gained an average of 103,621 contributors in February compared to the previous month (+0.5%), its largest increase in this month since 2007, driven by hospitality and education, which between them added almost 60,000. new contributors; now in precarious circumstances.
As PP sources explain to OKDIARIO, 8 out of every 10 contracts signed in February are permanent, part-time, permanent, discontinuous or temporary. In addition, dismissals from permanent contracts in the trial period have increased.
Effective unemployment
Once again, the real unemployment figure in Spain is light years away from what was officially reported by the Government. At the end of last January it was learned that effective unemployment had only decreased by 5,000 people since 2019, compared to the year closed last year 2023. Now, in February, according to PP sources in an analysis of the data known this Monday , data is again offered in which “temporary workers converted into permanent-discontinuous workers who cease their activity are not counted as unemployed.”
Thus, Spain continues to lead European unemployment while unemployment in the Eurozone and the EU registers its lowest level. Specifically and following the same sources of the popular, we have an unemployment rate of 11.6% (almost double the EU average, at 6%), and the highest youth unemployment rate in the EU, at 28.6%, with the particularity that, for example, in Greece, the second country with the highest youth unemployment rate, it has been falling much more strongly since June than in Spain. In January, the latest data published in Eurostat, youth unemployment fell 2.9 points in Greece and only fell 2 tenths in Spain.
In expansion.