The number of Spaniards who turn to a second job to weather inflation grows 7 times more than in the EU. Spaniards have wanted to reduce their consumption as little as possible, perhaps due to the behavioral change imposed by the pandemic and the new importance of carpe diem.
Younger workers with a lower educational level, who tend to have lower average incomes, and also women, who are abundant in the lowest paid professions, have also been more likely than the rest to look for another job. To maintain and even increase it, in addition to choosing to work more, they have turned to credit : "The proportion of individuals who indicate that they have resorted to loans to cope with the evolution of prices is 2.3 percentage points higher"