Applications for unemployment benefits double in the third wave. The number of requests for benefits in the province of Castellón registered in the month of December 2020 amounted to 15,024, which represents 99% more than the same month of the previous year, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy. […]
Tag: labor force – unemployment
Male unemployment shoots up 20% while in women it falls almost at the same rate
The economic crisis derived from the health pandemic caused by Covid-19 is affecting men with greater virulence in terms of the labor market. At least, this is clear from the detailed statistics published by the Ministry of Sustainable Economy regarding the latest data from the Active Population Survey (EPA) corresponding to the fourth quarter of […]
A doped job market
The Minister of Social Security, Josà © Luis Escrivá, said a few days ago in an interview with the newspaper ‘Financial Times’ that the unemployment forecasts of the OECD and the Bank of Spain that placed unemployment in Spain by over 20% at the end of 2020 “had completely failed”. And technically he is right, […]
The other pandemic: two and a half years lost in Andalusia in employment due to Covid-19
Two and a half years lost. That is what the coronavirus pandemic in Andalusia has meant, in terms of employment. And only in year I of the Covid. According to the latest Active Population Survey (EPA) published by the Andalusian Institute of Statistics, the community closed the year 2020 with a 907,200 unemployed, a figure […]
The Government approves a subsidy of 430 euros for the unemployed who have exhausted their unemployment benefit
The Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday a subsidy for the unemployed who exhausted all unemployment benefits during the months of confinement with an amount of 430 euros for three months, according to government sources. The measure is one of those demanded by the unions already in the declaration of the first state of alarm […]