The island of Tenerife as of December 31, 2021, had a total of 87,649 unemployed, according to the official data of the ISTAC. A positive balance in the annual comparison, since in relation to December 2020 there are 29,975 fewer people, 25.48%. Therefore, the decrease is practically 30,000 unemployed, a significant figure. Compared to November of last year, the unemployment figure fell by 2,099, 2.34%, since then there were 89,748 registered in the offices of the State Employment Service (SEPE). The total number of people seeking employment on the island stands at those 87,649, the lowest figure since June 2019.
By sectors.
By economic sector, the data are similar to the global figure and indicate significant decreases ranging from 20% to almost 40%. For example in Hostelry, a key productive sector goes from the 22,461 unemployed in December 2020 to 13,865 in 2021, with a decrease of 39% Commerce also registers a significant drop, from the 19,641 unemployed in December 2020 to the current 14,560, 26% less. Construction went from 11,471 unemployed to 8,905, 22.3% less. Agriculture fell from 2,253 to 1,596, with a drop of 30%. Finally, Industry fell 20%, from the 4,392 in December 2020 to the 3,520 in the last month of 2021.
By sex.
The data by sex show a Inequality between men and women in the unemployment figures. Thus, they were in December 2021, 38,648 with a decrease of 15,581. They totaled, for their part, 49,001. The unemployed fell by 14,394. Although the evolution is very similar, the difference in unemployment between men and women remains at around 10,500 people. To the detriment of women, something common.
From the Cabildo.
The balance of Council In 2021, in this specific area of employment, it contemplates a total of 2,439 jobs protected with subsidies for their maintenance. In addition, they have been 963 companies benefited from the aids and a total of four million euros granted as a global amount of these aforementioned subsidies. To this must be added, within the Cooperation with the 31 municipalities of the Island, the 843 jobs created last year with the Extraordinary Employment Plan endowed with ten million euros in which all the Tenerife city councils could participate. It was designed in financial year 2020, but the projects were developed in 2021.
Neighborhoods for Employment.
The Cabildo has also encouraged 1,178 people to access a job with the Barrios por el Empleo Project: Together at the same address.
The Minister of Employment and Socioeconomic Development, Carmen Luz Baso, highlights the increase in participants of this program With which comprehensive employment support has been provided to 4,474 people, half a thousand more than in 2020.
In addition, the aforementioned program, in its version Together for Tenerife, which manages the insular area of Employment and Socioeconomic Development through the Insular Foundation for Training, Employment and Business Development (Fifede) has facilitated the labor insertion 1,178 unemployed people during 2021, which is 352 more than the 826 who got a job in 2020 through this initiative.
Disability.
Another variant of the Barrios por el Empleo project, in this case Stronger Together, has facilitated access to employment during 2021 to a total of 85 people with disabilities who have a complicated itinerary for labor insertion. This is one of the results obtained with the new line of specific attention that the Insular Society for the Promotion of People with Disabilities (Sinpromi) has begun to provide within the project. To these initiatives must be added the aid to SMEs and the self-employed, plus those for artisans. The idea is that in the end “everything adds up to keep jobs on the island.”
