Employment increases by 12,640 people in Spain in the worst month of December since 2012

• Unemployment would be at 3.4 million people, levels of July 2021, with discontinuous permanent workers who do not work

increased in Spain by

,

which means that it was

when 88,367 jobs were lost in the country.

According

data published this Tuesday, in the last ten years there has never been such a slight job creation as that registered in 2022,

December is a traditionally positive month for the labor market, but this year job creation has lost steam in an environment of

, uncertainty and

after the

In this sense, the

has caused people who previously went from being unemployed to being employed in months of upturn in activity -such as December due to the Christmas campaign-, now do not stop working be registered and only go from being without work to being active, which means that

In

employment

in December;

and in previous years the average job creation for the months of December 2013 to 2019 included was 6,292 Social Security affiliates,

than that of the last month of 2022.

With this increase in the number of average affiliates, the

with Social Security stood at

employees at the end of last year, 2.38% more in the interannual rate.

The month of December has registered a positive balance because 22,579 jobs have been created in the service sector and 16,529 in agriculture, but 15,761 construction workers

and 10,706 in

.

The behavior of the affiliation was negative in December, which is confirmed by observing the evolution of the

published by the Ministry in order to know how the labor market would fluctuate if every month were the same in terms of employment.

In December,

In annual volume,

have been created in 2022

than there were at the end of 2021. The evolution would have been worse if the last day of the year,

, since the destruction of employment that occurred that day will be included in the data for January.

Drop in unemployment lower than the historical

Together with the affiliation figures disclosed by the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security, the Ministry of Labor has published on Tuesday the

in the offices of the Public State Employment Service (SEPE), which includes the volume of those who They are looking for a new job.

According to these data,

in Spain

, almost half the drop that occurred last year (of 76,782 fewer unemployed) and slightly less than what occurred in the years prior to the pandemic. .

Between 2012 and 2020,

This data, moreover, is involved in controversy due to the fact that

and, therefore, without working and in some cases receiving the unemployment benefit.

These would have to join the unemployed to know what the experts call

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