Subtract and continue. Or add and continue. Another month, May, in which the number of unemployed decreases (-3,140) and the number of people who have a job increases (1,481). This improvement, in which construction and the public sector were the main protagonists, increase the series of records that the labor market of the Islands exhibits in recent months.
The volume of unemployed in the Archipelago is reduced by 1.75%, there are now 176,552 and that figure was not reached, pointed out the Government of the Canary Islands, “since August 2008”. The number of jobs – workers registered with Social Security – increased by 0.17% to reach 878,739 and never in history have there been so many in the autonomous community.
The data published this Friday by the Ministries of Labor and Social Security reveal that In Spain as a whole, 49,260 people left the unemployment lists in the fifth month of the year, which represents a relative improvement of 1.77% to which all the autonomous communities contributed without exception.
3,140 people leave the Canary Islands unemployment lists
Are 2.74 million the citizens who demand a job throughout the country, which is “the lowest figure for a month of May in 15 years.” During the past month, 200,411 jobs (0.97%) were created. In the last twelve months there were 582,676 (2.88%), of which the Islands contributed 37,663, for a relative growth well above the state average of 4.48%. Canary Islands It is the second region in which the job offer has grown the most in the last twelve months, only behind the 6.12% recorded by the Balearic Islands.
“A political period characterized by the creation of employment is coming to an end, and, furthermore, of higher quality and more stable since the application of the labor reform,” stated the General Secretary of the UGT-Canary Islands, Manuel Navarro. Opposite, CEOE-Tenerifeurged the establishment of new governments as soon as possible after last Sunday’s elections to work on solving a “pressing problem.”
“Shouting”
In addition to positively assessing the downward curve that describes unemployment in the Archipelago during the last year –17,190 fewer unemployed (-8.87%), fourth best autonomous community–, The union leader did not hide the number of people who are asking “loudly for their incorporation into the labor market.”
The Tenerife employers ruled out any hint of triumphalism and attributed the good records in May to the inclusion of the month in a “traditionally good time of year” for job creation. To this he added that Spain is the country with the highest level of unemployment in the entire European Union, both in rate (Active Population Survey) and in absolute terms. The Canary Islands is at the bottom of the country in the workplace.
It is low tourist season, which takes accommodation activity in terms of affiliation to Social Security out of the equation of this improvement in the month of May. In fact, 1,337 jobs were destroyed in the hospitality sector. It was the Administration that added the most jobs to leave services positive (689): 579 in health and social services, 501 in general services and the armies, and 352 in Education. Further intense was the contribution of construction, which added 887 affiliates in the fifth month of the year. “Compared to the figures prior to the pandemicthe affiliation registered 69,095 more workers than in May 2019, which translates into a relative rebound of 8.53%, “said the Canary Islands Confederation of Entrepreneurs (CCE).
46% of the contracts signed in the fifth month of the year were indefinite
How did all these movements translate into the offices of the Canary Islands Employment Service? With a general thinning of the lists. Throughout the past month, the offices of the Islands lost 2,064 applicants registered in services; the group of those looking for their first job, 460; construction, 322; industry, 151, and agriculture, 143.
Manuel Navarro elaborated on the improvement in the quality of the employment generated, noting that practically “half of the contracts signed were permanent”. Specific, 51,372 were initialed, 46% of them without an expiration date. For its part, the Government of the Canary Islands highlighted that those with a duration of less than six months “have been reduced by 7.89%” during the last year.
worse for women
By sex, the reduction in the number of unemployed benefited men (-1,783) more than women (-1,357). Despite the more or less even distribution of the improvement, the difference widens a considerable gap. 57% of Canarian unemployment has a female accent.
The behavior in the two Canary provinces was also affected by a slight asymmetry. That of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (-1,971) picked up the reduction with more intensity of unemployment that the palms (-1,169). And also in this case these disparate improvements fueled the difference, in this case much smaller than in the previous one.
The number of unemployed fell more among men and in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
On the three eastern islands –Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria– 51.6% of unemployment is concentrated of the autonomous community, while The iron, The Palm, La Gomera and Tenerife keep the remaining 48.4%.
Regarding the level of protection of those who do not have a job, in April – this statistic is offered one month late – 93,915 of the unemployed with which that fourth month of the year closed were covered by some type of subsidy. That means 47.7% did not receive any type of public income to alleviate your situation.
