MADRID, April 25 (Bernama) -- The number of unemployed people in Spain
has agone past the 6 million mark with over 27 percent of the population
without a job in the first three months of 2013, the Spanish National
Institute of Statistics said Thursday.
According to a survey, some 27.16 percent of the Spanish population are
jobless and leaving almost 2 million households without a single family
member holding a job, Xinhua news agency reported.
Figures would have been higher if many immigrants had not returned to
their country of origin and young Spaniards had not emigrated to other
countries.
Although the number of unemployed has risen by 237,400 in the first
quarter of the year, the size of Spain's workforce had shrunk by
322,300.
Unemployment rose in nearly all of the regions in Spain with the largest
increases witnessed in Andalusia, the Valencia Autonomous Community and
Balearic Islands.
The first quarter of the year is traditionally a bad period for jobs in
Spain in general and in those regions in particular, when it falls
during off-peak tourist season and when the agricultural sector remains
most quiet.
Tourist season in the second quarter of the year should bring some
relief to those regions that are at the heart of the Spanish tourist
industry.
Without positive signs of economic growth, improvement would be a
short-term phenomenon and unemployment would continue to rise in the
crisis-hit country.
-- BERNAMA
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