The province of Ourense continues on a labor honeymoon, in line with the rest of Galicia and Spain, and according to the Active Population Survey (EPA) published yesterday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), the second quarter ended with the lowest number of unemployed since 2008, returning, therefore, to figures that were not seen before the outbreak of the economic crisis. And it is clear what the drivers of employment in Ourense are.
According to the second EPA of the year, Ourense closed June with a rate of 9.05% of unemployed, much lower than the 11.4% of the first quarter and the 10.84% registered just a year ago. In the last quarter, unemployed people in Ourense have decreased by 2,700 and in the last year they have fallen by 2,400. In total, there are 11,900 people from Ourense who are still looking for work, compared to the 14,600 at the end of the first quarter of the year and the 14,300 12 months ago. Since 2008, such a low number of unemployed has not been recorded.
Without going too far, 10 years ago, in 2013, this same second quarter had closed with 33,800 unemployed, 22,000 more people are unemployed than there are right now. A whole abyss that puts black on white the labor recovery that the province is experiencing.
The number of employed people, which has broken its historical record in Spain by surpassing the barrier of 21 million workers for the first time, does not reach maximum figures in the province, but has skyrocketed, marking the highest figure since 2012. It closed this quarter with 119,800 employed, 6,600 more than in the previous quarter – the largest quarter-on-quarter increase since records began – and 2,700 more than a year ago.
By sectors, services, with the arrival of summer, have a strong pull in employment, which brings together a total of 87,200 employed people (+1,100 in the last year), while industry (17,400, +700) and agriculture (6,500, + 1,000) also grow. Construction, on the other hand, remains with 8,700 workers (-500 compared to 2022).
The unions expressed their satisfaction with the data. From Comisiones Obreras Ourense, its general secretary, Ana Barrio, highlighted the “positive effects” of the labor reform and other agreements that are “consolidating labor stability.” In this sense, she highlights that the average permanent hiring went from 5.9% to 29.1% since the new regulations came into force, with temporary hiring falling from 94.1% to 65%. In any case, Barrios criticizes that women see improvements in employment “always at a rate less than two households”, since for women the unemployment rate is 9.2% while for men it is 8.9%. %. The occupancy rate is 46.8% for men and 43.5% for women.
From UGT Ourense, Cristóbal Medeiros also highlights the effect of labor reform to create “quality employment”, but highlights that “there are still many changes” to be made in the labor market to alleviate long-term poverty or “high poverty”. labor.”
Consult in this graph the evolution of the unemployment rate by provinces and autonomous communities.
Households with all their members working set historic figures
Spanish households with all their members unemployed fell by 139,300 in the second quarter of the year, 13.2% compared to the previous quarter, reaching 916,000, their lowest figure since the fourth quarter of 2008, according to EPA data. . In the last year, households with all their members unemployed decreased by 74,300, which represents a decrease in relative values of 7.5%.
In the second quarter, the percentage of families with all their members unemployed out of total households fell to 4.7%, its lowest value since the third quarter of 2008.. On the contrary, between April and June, households with all their members employed increased by 345,700 (+3.1%), to a total of 11,557,700 households, the highest figure in the historical series. In the last twelve months, families with all their members employed have increased by 310,600 (+2.7%). Another good news is that the number of households without any income earner is decreasing. According to the EPA for the second quarter, at the end of June there were 527,800 households without any income recipient, 43,300 less than in the second quarter of 2022 (-7.6 points).
Spain set
In Spain as a whole, unemployment fell by 365,300 people in the second quarter of the year, which is 11.7% less than in the previous quarter, while 603,900 jobs have been created (+2.9%). , bringing the total number of employed people for the first time in history to 21,056,700 people.
The decrease in unemployment experienced between April and June is the highest in a second quarter since 1977 and places the level of unemployed at 2,762,500 people, its lowest figure since the third quarter of 2008. In this way, the unemployment rate It decreased almost 1.7 points in the second quarter, to 11.6%, also its lowest value in the last 15 years. In the last year, unemployment has been reduced by 157,000 people (-5.4%) and 588,700 jobs have been created (+2.9%), while the volume of active people increased by 431,700 (+1.8%). %).
The Galician case
The number of employed people in Galicia added 26,500 people in the second quarter of the year to reach 1.13 million workers. Galicia also registered a drop in unemployment, as the number of unemployed fell by 15,300 people to a total of 119,700 unemployed.
The rate thus stands at 9.58%, below the national average, which is 11.6%, and 1.67 points less than in the previous quarter.
Galicia was the third autonomous community in Spain in which unemployment fell the most in the last year. In absolute terms, a general drop in unemployment was experienced in all the autonomous communities, but the greatest reductions were recorded in the Canary Islands (-25,200), Catalonia (-23,700) and Galicia (-19,700).
Youth strike
Unemployment among those under 25 years of age in Spain fell 2.09 points in the second quarter of the year, to 27.9%, which is the lowest rate in fifteen years. The total number of unemployed young people in Spain fell to 467,600 people, 7,000 less compared to the previous quarter, a decrease that was concentrated in the age group of 20 to 24 years and among women. There are 809,400 young people between 16 and 29 years old who neither work nor study – NEET -, 4,200 more than a year before but half compared to the 1.6 million that there were in 2013. The number of “sisis”, who study and work, stood at 1.04 million, 83,200 more than a year before.
The youth unemployment rate in Galicia fell to 24.28% in the second quarter, also, as at the state level, the lowest since 2008.
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