Employment grew by 238,436 affiliates in April, a historical record for this month and the second highest job creation since July 2005, although 52% of the new jobs were in the hospitality sector, driven by Holy Week.
According to data published this Thursday by the Ministry of Social Security, the total number of workers in the country amounted to 20,614,989 people, 2.98% more than there was a year ago.
Registered unemployment in the offices of the Public State Employment Service (SEPE) fell by 73,890 people, a lower decrease than that which occurred last year (of 86,260 people) and also in the years prior to the pandemic: in 2019 unemployment it fell by 91,518 people in April; in 2018, at 86,683; and in 2017, at 129,281.
Even so, the decrease in April allowed the total number of registered unemployed in the country to stand at 2,788,370, below the three million line and at its lowest level for a month of April since 2008.
The surge in tourism and Holy Week accounted for more than half of the job creation for the month of April, which includes the call for workers with a permanent discontinuous contract who were inactive in March and became active in April – since they stop being low in Social Security to start computing as registered affiliates.
In total, the hospitality industry gained 119,618 jobs in April of the 207,885 new wage earners that the country added (57%); while of the 12,959 self-employed who registered, a third (4,322) corresponded to this sector, which was responsible for a total of 52% of new employment.
He also highlighted the creation of jobs in commerce (18,713 more affiliates), linked to vacations; and in administrative activities and auxiliary services (11,808). Education was the only sector that destroyed employment in April (with 1,083 fewer affiliates), possibly due to the layoffs that occurred ahead of Easter or the teachers who have a permanent discontinuous contract and became inactive, of whose abuse EL warned WORLD.
The communities that typically attract the most travelers were the ones that created the most jobs. The Balearic Islands led the classification, with 58,832 more affiliates; followed by Andalusia, with 52,499 more workers, and Catalonia, with 38,326. La Rioja was the one that registered a more timid job creation, of 571 employees.
In seasonally adjusted terms -that is, mathematically modifying the series to find out how many jobs would have been created in April if all the months of the year were the same, if it had not been a particularly good month for Easter-, employment would have grown by 128,824 people , which demonstrates a strong dynamism of the labor market. If this job creation is maintained, the year would end with a million and a half new jobs.
All the regimes had a gain in employment, including the agrarian one, where 14,724 people joined; the Special Home System, with 1,080 new workers; and the sea regime, which added 1,794 employees. In coal, 5 affiliates were lost and only 953 workers remain in Spain.
The month was slightly more positive for women, since the number of affiliates grew by 128,382, than for men, where 110,054 workers joined.
Youth unemployment also fell in April, by a total of 19,848 people, which leaves the total number of unemployed people under 25 years of age at 195,251 people, a record low, although still a very large figure that doubles the rate of the European Union average. .
The drop in unemployment -parallel to job creation- occurred both among men and women and was especially striking in the service sector, which pulled the labor market in April.
Specifically, 52,216 people came out of unemployment in April to work in the service sector; 5,391 went to industry; 4,296 to agriculture, and 4,014 to construction. In addition, 7,973 young people who were registered for unemployment and had never worked got their first job.
Unemployment fell in all the autonomous communities, with the greatest setbacks in Andalusia, Catalonia and Castilla-La Mancha.
In total, 1.15 million contracts were signed in April, of which almost half (530,537) were permanent. Of the latter, 224,308 are full-time; 120,914 are part-time, and 185,315 are discontinuous permanent.
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