Jobless rate rises in Spain, Europe's economic star

Jobless rate rises in Spain, Europe's economic star

Spain's unemployment rate inched up in the first quarter, official data showed today, a sign of prudence by some employers in an economy still forecast to outperform its European peers this year.

The Active Population Survey (EPA) reflects a large increase in the population willing to work, by 101,200 people, and also a new minimum of temporary work, which falls to 15.1%Radiography of the historical increase of foreign workers in Spain: “In front of the bulls, the effect is positive” Large increase in unemployment at the beginning of 2025, although hand in hand with a large increase of the population willing to work. Unemployment rose by…

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) advanced 2.8% in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, as published today by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Read

For the first time in a long time the labour market in Spain faces bad figures: those of the first quarter of this 2025, with an increase of 193,700 unemployed in the first three months of the year. News RT Thus, 2024 closed with 2.56 million unemployed who at the end of March became 2.79 million. This is the largest increase in unemployment in the first quarter of 2013, in the middle of a recession after the international financial crisis. Acco…

The year begins in the Catalan labor market with a changed footing, as we learned from the labor force survey (EPA) for the first quarter of 2025. Broadly speaking, there are 47,000 more unemployed than in the previous quarter and 5,000 fewer employed. For their part, the active population, people of working age who have decided to start looking for work, have increased by 42,000. In other words, there have been many people who have suddenly ent…

MADRID, 28 (EUROPA PRESS) The Union of Associations of Self-employed Workers and Entrepreneurs (Uatae) has welcomed the evolution in the number of self-employed workers during the first quarter of the year, although it has warned that growth in numbers cannot hide the structural needs that the collective still faces, such as those related to [...] The entry Uatae celebrates the data of the EPA, but insists on strengthening labour rights and soci…