The year 2021 closes with 776,000 more jobs but 3.1 million people are still unemployed

• ALEJANDRA OLCESE

  @AlejandraOlcese

• ELSA MARTÍN

  @elsa_millan

• EMILIO AMADE

  @emilioamade

Updated on Tuesday, 4January2022-09: 00

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After a catastrophic year 2020 for the labor market,

which leaves the number of workers in the country at the historical record of 19.82 million, including the

who at the beginning of 2022 are still affected by an

.

Despite the good performance of the labor market, which has

the State Public Employment Service (SEPE, the former Inem)

, there are still

in Spain

, 20.12% less than a year ago.

According to the affiliation and unemployment data released this Tuesday by the

, the month of

has just finished a year with a very positive trend for employment since May. Specifically, in the last month of the year,

were created (the best figure since December 2018 in which 78,540 jobs were created) and

(the largest decrease since the same month of 2016).

This favorable evolution has allowed Spain not only to recover in 2021 the labor market figures it had before the crisis, but to surpass them, reaching historical membership figures in all segments. In fact, there are now

in the country

than there were in January 2020, just

Employment has grown in

(agriculture, industry, construction and services), and also both in the

(+ 5.1% of employees) and in the

-

(+ 1.74%). On the other hand, the number of employees of the Special Agrarian System (-3.1%; 24,311 fewer workers), that of the Special Household System (-0.11%, 411 fewer domestic employees) and Coal workers (-10.7%, 121 fewer employees).

All regions closed the year with a growth in the number of Social Security affiliates and, in half of the provinces, the increase in affiliates this year was over 4%, the most notable being the advances in the

(+ 6.43%), the

(+ 5.52%) and the

(+ 4.97%).

Job creation has been led by the sectors that had cut the most last year, such as

(17.77% more affiliates),

(16.24%), Information and Communications (8 , 78%) and Scientific and Technical Professional Activities (6.84%).

124,000 people in ERTE

Although affiliation to Social Security has increased to 19.8 million workers, it would be necessary to subtract from that figure the

who are still registered and count as affiliates but are currently affected by a

of total suspension or reduction of working hours and that they receive a benefit.

Of these, a total of

are still affected by the so-called

those that were put into practice in the face of the restrictions derived from the covid-19 and that came to affect more than three million people in the worst moments of the pandemic .

Most belong to the

sectors

.

A year ago, there were 520,000 more workers at ERTE COVID.

Of this total, workers are distributed practically 50% between those who are partially suspended or reduced working hours (49,685) and total (52,863), according to preliminary data from Social Security.

To these must be added

(for reasons not related to the pandemic), of which 30% belong to the

sector

and another

are protected by the special ERTEs due to the

, which represent 8.2% of the island's affiliates and of which 40% belong to the accommodation and food and beverage services sectors .

140,000 fewer unemployed than before the covid

The number of

the country at the end of December 2021 is the lowest for that month of the year since 2007 and supposes that there are

The

has decreased by 39.57% in the last year and affects 275,469 under 25, this means that there are 180,413 fewer than a year ago.

The number of people targeted for unemployment has fallen in the

sector

(-2.88%) and in agriculture (-3.02%), but has increased in construction (+ 3%) and industry (+ 0.68% ).

By region, unemployment has dropped in the last year in all

.

The greatest decreases have occurred in the Balearic Islands (-33.6%), Aragon (-25.9%) and Catalonia (25.8%);

while the most moderate have taken place in the Valencian Community (-15.1%), Cantabria (-13.6%) and the Basque Country (-11.1%).

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