Economic and employment situation in spain

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Andalucia Suffers Worst Unemployment Figures in Spain | Spanish Vida

[Pesky Wesky]

Sometimes we are accused of being too negative when people ask about employment in Spain today. Well, I'm not saying anything. Just read the article - and remember, this is talking about Spanish people who speak the language and know the system.

Jobless household: "We get 426 euros a month and that runs out in May" · ELPAÍS.com in English

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Originally Posted by Pesky Wesky

Sometimes we are accused of being too negative when people ask about employment in Spain today. Well, I'm not saying anything. Just read the article - and remember, this is talking about Spanish people who speak the language and know the system.

Jobless household: "We get 426 euros a month and that runs out in May" · ELPAÍS.com in English

Click on the 'human face of unemployment' on the right of that article. That makes grim reading as well !

Or here. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/engli...06elpeng_2/Ten

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This would be hilarious if it wasn't true.
Almería employment office sends pensioner with osteoarthritis for a job as a builder
The comments say it all !

[Pesky Wesky]

If you don't want to know about the dire situation Spain is in at the moment, DON'T read any further!

According to the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)

España tardará 15 años en reducir el paro a tasas previas a la crisis. No será hasta 2026 cuando la economía española verá caer el paro hasta el 8,9%, cerca ya del 8,6% que registraba al cierre de 2007, según las nuevas previsiones hechas públicas ayer por la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE), que empeora los pronósticos que hizo en noviembre. La institución que dirige Ángel Gurría reiteró que para mejorar esa situación es necesario modificar la negociación colectiva y reducir las indemnizaciones por despido

Spain will take 15 years to reduce unemployment to pre-crisis levels, according to the OECD
Spain will take 15 years to reduce unemployment to pre-crisis rate. It will not be until 2026 when the Spanish economy will see unemployment fall to 8.9%, close and from 8.6% recorded at the end of 2007, according to new projections released yesterday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which worsens the forecast made ​​in November. The institution he leads Angel Gurria reiterated that to improve this situation is necessary to amend the collective bargaining and reduce redundancy.

OK, somebody, somewhere will get a job, but will it be Mr. Smith from the UK who speaks conversational Spanish (¿Dónde está la farmacia?), whose qualifications are not recognised here, whose family is all back in the UK and who doesn't know the town, nor the city nor the country, OR will the job go to Pepe Pérez, who is bilingual, knows the place and who'll work from 8:00 to 20:00 without batting an eyelid???

My objective is NOT to spread bad news, put people off, kill the dream, crow over those who are not here.

I just think people in the UK have little idea of what's happening in Spain and the more info they have the better. The general idea is if you need to work to finance your life in Spain you need a sure job offer before you make the move, or a UK job you can do from home over the internet, or somebody who works off shore, or you are single footloose and fancy free and can go back and pickup your life in the UK if things don't work out here ...

Good luck to those who decide to come

links to the original article

http://www.infobarrel.com/media/image/46112.jpg

http://economicsnewspaper.com/policy...sis-28049.html

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‘Indignados’ begin long march to Madrid - FT.com

On Friday Spain’s socialist government tabled a fresh round of public spending cuts for next year, proposing a 3.8 per cent reduction for next year’s budget and a budget cap of €117.4bn at a time when the country’s unemployment rate sits almost 22 per cent of the adult population.

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unemployment figures as of 21/6/2011

Unemployment rate - 21.3%

Male - 20.8%

Female - 21.9%

age 16-24 - 45.4%


from here http://www.thespanisheconomy.com/Sit...Indicators.pdf

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Spanish State Defecit falls by 24.7%

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Spanish Registered Unemployment Falls as Tourist Industry Grows - Bloomberg

Spain’s registered unemployment dropped in June for the third month as a recovery in the country’s tourist industry created jobs.

The number of people registering for jobless benefits fell by 67,858 or 1.62 percent from May to 4.12 million, the Labor Ministry in Madrid said .....................

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Moody's threatens Spain rating cut, euro falls | Reuters

(Reuters) - Rating agency Moody's put Spain on review for a possible downgrade on Friday, adding to concerns that a Greek rescue package has done little to halt the spread of Europe's debt crisis.