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Employment grew by 238,436 affiliates in April, a historical record for this month and the second largest job creation since the one that occurred in July 2005, although 52% of new jobs were in the hospitality sector, driven by Easter.

According to data published 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 were a year ago.

The unemployment registered in the offices of the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), fell by 73,890 people, a lower decrease than last year (of 86,260 people) and also in the years prior to the pandemic: in 2019 unemployment fell by 91,518 people in April; in 2018, 86,683; and in 2017, 129,281.

Even so, the decline 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 an April since 2008.

The pull of tourism and Easter justified more than half of the job creation in April, which computes the call to workers with discontinuous permanent contracts who were inactive in March and have become active in April -since they stop being low in Social Security to go on to compute as affiliates in high-.

In total, the hotel industry gained 119,618 jobs in April of the 207,885 new wage earners added by the country (57%); While of the 12,959 self-employed who registered, a third (4,322) corresponded to this sector, which was responsible for 52% of new employment.

He also highlighted the creation of jobs in commerce (18,713 more affiliates), also linked to holidays; and in administrative and auxiliary services activities (+11,808). Education was the only sector that destroyed employment in April (with 1,083 fewer affiliates), possibly also due to the dismissals that occurred in the face of Holy Week or teachers who have a discontinuous fixed contract and became inactive, whose abuse warned EL MUNDO.

The communities that tend to attract the most travelers created the most jobs. The Balearic Islands led the ranking, 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 creation of positions, of 571 employees.

In seasonally adjusted terms – that is, mathematically modifying the series to know how many jobs would have been created in April if all the months of the year were the same, that is, 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 continues, the year would end with one and a half million new jobs.

All schemes had a gain in employment, including agriculture, where 14,724 people joined; the Special Home System, with 1,080 new workers; and the sea regime, which totaled 1,794 employees. In the coal sector, 5 members were lost and there are only 953 workers left 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 were added.

Youth unemployment falls

Youth unemployment also fell in April, in total by 19,848 people, which leaves the total number of people under 25 unemployed at 195,251 people, a historical low, although still a very bulky figure that doubles the rate of the European Union.

The drop in unemployment – parallel to job creation – occurred among both men and women and was especially striking in the services 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 unemployed 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 indefinite. Of the latter, 224,308 are full-time; 120,914 are part-time, and 185,315 are permanent discontinuous.

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