The first year is usually a bad quarter for employment, and thus, in this case, was again. Unemployment increased in 193 700 people from January to March, and the lesson was reduced 92 500 people (-0.4%), as reported on Monday by the National Statistical Institute (INE).
Turning to specific data to find the origin of this fall, we see that hospitality and public sector are a affected prince. The heavy rains and the sacred week located in April – and whose data will count on the next quarter – this autumn has determined this autumn. On the one side, hospitality is lost 142,000 busy In this quarter, in relation to the previous one, and inside it restoration is what is lost most, 97,000 workers are less, followed by a hotel sector, which falls at 45,800.
An important decline also suffers from public administration, defense and social security, which lose 39,600 employees. In fact, the general public as a whole has lost 92 200 jobs in relation to the previous quarter.
Unemployment level 11.36%
Return to unemployment, with this rebound, The level of unemployment scaling more than seven tenths and remains at the level of 11.36%Its highest cost from the first quarter of 2024. In addition, this increase in unemployment in the first three months of this year is the most pronounced in The first quarter since 2013, When it increased by 257,200 people. Despite this, a decrease in the occupation is better than that of the first quarter of 2024, when 139,700 jobs were destroyed; Not so with the fall of the occupation of 2023, in which 11,100 jobs were lost.
At the end of March, the total number of unemployed stood in 2789 200 peopleThe highest figure from the first quarter of 2024 and such OCCUPY reached 21,765,400 workers, which reduced the record indicators of 21.8 million used in the last two quarters of 2024.
Ine also emphasizes that the active population, that is, the one that has a rabajar, grew in this first quarter of 2025 for 101,200 people to record 24,554,500 people in total. This increase is completely in women, 118 100While people went down at 16 900.
Employment falls on men and services
For sex Employment in this quarter was reduced to 94,100 peopleWhile increased by 1600 women. By nationality, he fell by 144,500 people in the Spaniards, including double nationality, and increased by 52,000 among foreigners.
In the sectors, the lesson increased in the “Agriculture” section (another 25,000) and decreased in “Services” (112,300 people less) and in “Industry” (-4,400), an INE resume is allocated, while in construction it is barely diverse (-700).
However, if we look at the last years, full employment Rose to 381,000 people Over the past 12 months and partial employment of 134,400, a total of 515,400 jobs (2.43%), which are a year ago. In addition, Spain continues to add vague work, and last year it increased by 476,000 people, while temporary employment fell by 40,600.
The government emphasizes discussion data
However, as usual, the government chose to take the positive side of this quarterly delivery of EPA and was hidden in the conditions of obtaining sestationalized data. In this sense, the quarterly temperature of the variation was 0.73%, and employment increased by 515,400 people over the past 12 months, numbers that increased the number of trained above 22 million is busyField
“These data show the dynamism of the labor market, maintaining the rhythm in creating employment and with a more stable employment and in the sectors of a greater added value,” added the department directed by Carlos Body.
