In recent years, foreign workers played a central role in the Spanish labor market, to such an extent that the government and social agents have promised the stability of the pension system, that migration flows have been positive over the next decades. Consequently, more than three million social security branches with nationality, except for Spanish, as well as within the framework of this group, are the number of those who They perceive the subsidy of unemploymentIn particular, last year it increased by 26%.
This is an advantage, access to which people who have exhausted unemployment benefits or who did not work during the number of days to combine the deposit level by which this right can be generated. And according to the latest data published by the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy, corresponding to May, The number of foreigners who receive unemployment subsidy is 75 205Compared to 59 592, which received it in the same period of 2024.
This advance, registered in the last twelve months, out of more than 15,000 perceptors, corresponds to the evolution that has been encountered in recent months. Figure Added by 19% year -on April and 20% in MarchAfter recording a more moderate increase in February (8%) and January (10%). Nevertheless, foreign beneficiaries continue to represent a decrease in percentage of the total number and do not reach 10%, since the amount with citizens is 774 178 people.
Statistics processed by the Department of Yolanda Diaz do not allow to distinguish, so foreigners received this help. Although the added data (between national and foreigners) show that 470 840 They perceive it for more than 52 yearsThis is the first reason, another 151 206 for exhausting unemployment or unemployment tax and 100 011 for not indicating a sufficient period.
Nevertheless, you can extract this most of these foreigners (54.22%) They turned to subsidies after November 1When the reform of the level of unemployment, which the Ministry of Labor promoted as part of the milestone plan associated with the next generation funds. During this period, 28,000 foreigners who origin from the European Union were received, and more than 12,000, which come from another country in the community, which means that they use the improvement of the amounts included in the royal production level 2/2024.
With this change, they receive 570 euros during the first six months Help, 540 in the next six and 480 over the past year, while 34,429 foreigners who began to receive help before this date received this last amount over the entire period associated with 80% of the public lease indicator (IPREM) established at 600 euros per month.
Nevertheless, there are more foreign unemployed people who are included in unemployment benefits than those that are accepted at the level of medical care (79 780), or subsidies, agricultural income (for residents of Andalusia or Exmercadura), or a subsidy for possible agricultural workers who play the minority after they were included in the last Reform, agreed and UG.
The first is more than 124,000 people from the total 208 551 foreigners who have any benefit For the fact that you did not have a job. This number is still a small part of the unemployment beneficiaries, subsidies or active implementation income, which exceed 1.7 million and proportional to the weight that they have on the labor market, since with the data of the last month, foreigners, foreigners, foreigners, foreigners, foreigners, foreigners, foreigners, foreigners, foreigners, foreigners, foreigners, foreigners They suggest that 12.2% of the total perception.
Using a slowdown
Published data on employment at the beginning of this week reflect a change in the pattern in the behavior of the creation of jobs among foreigners. Closing the second quarter of the year leaves a strong slowdown in the social support of this group, according to Funcas, which has left the presence 1.8% of growth rate in the first quarter up to 0.6% in the secondWhich accompanies a slight acceleration of the generation of jobs for citizens whose rate has grown from 0.4 to 0.6% over the past three months.
This process occurred, while in parallel, the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Support and Migration noted that the number of foreign workers consolidated more than three million and that they were 1.4 million branches more than those that were made in a decade, which was an increase by 84.6% and 118% in the case of people from countries that are not countries, according to the figure divided by the department. Elma.
This increase has become obvious in the sectors Information and communicationsConstruction, transport and hospitality. Something, which also emphasizes the government, since it begins with the growth of foreigners belongs, is in activities with high added value, for example, related to the financial sector (8.9%), professional and technical professional activities (7%) and related to information and communications (5.7%).
In addition, the temporary contract is the smallest common occurrence, therefore, foreign workers record an indicator of the temporary level of 11.3%, that is, slightly lower than that of citizens (12%). In turn, wide Most are associated with the total regime, 84% And self -guided minority. Morocco workers are the most common group followed by workers of Romania, Colombia, Italy, Venezuela and China; From two thirds of the total number comes from countries located outside the European Union.
