US EditionUnemployment in Spain Rises by 231,500 in Q1, the Largest Increase Since 2013, with Public Employment at Record Highs
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The start of the year has been the most negative for employment in a decade. The first quarter has been bad. No palliatives. It has been so much so that even the usual layers of makeup of the government have not been able to sweeten it. Unemployment totaled 231,500 people in the worst quarter since 2013 and grew to 10.8%. The labor market destroyed 170,300 occupied between January and March, almost twice what was lost in the same period of 2025.…
The PSOE's heightened optimism about this black quarter in terms of employment is surprising.
The occupation decreased by 170,300 people in the start of the year compared to the last quarter of 2025
The beginning of the year is not usually a good time for the labour market due to the end of the Christmas campaign and this time it has not been an exception either.The first quarter of 2026 concluded with an increase in the unemployment rate to 10.8% and the destruction of 170,300 jobs, as reflected in the Labour Force Survey (EPA) published on Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).The cyclical functioning of employment in Spai…
The Active Population Survey (EPA) prepared by the National Statistical Institute (INE) indicates that the unemployment rate in Spain increased in the first quarter of the year to 10.83%, nine tenths more than in the previous registry, which represents the largest increase in this time of year since 2013. Spain once again overcomes the psychological barrier of 10% unemployment, which it managed to abandon in the last quarter of last year for the…
The first quarter of the year does not usually bring good news in terms of occupation. It arrives after the holiday campaign and without the start of the summer season being activated. Therefore, three months that usually lose jobs and earn unemployed, as has also happened on this occasion. From January to March, 170,300 jobs were lost, according to data from the Active Population Survey (EPA) published this morning, and the unemployment rate in…
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