Spain's unemployment rate hit its lowest level in seven years at the end of 2016, official data showed Thursday, as a booming tourism sector fuelled job creation.
Spain's jobless queue shrank sharply last year, dropping by 9.5 percent, the labour ministry said Wednesday, as unemployment continues to recede from the record highs seen during the 2013 crisis.
Spain's minority conservative government on Friday approved raising the country's minimum monthly wage by 8.0 percent in 2017 to €825.5 ($876) as demanded by the main opposition Socialists.
Luis Lag is one of thousands of Spaniards who went abroad during the crisis. This "very good decision" allowed him to find a better job when he eventually came back.
New figures released by Spain's tax office reveal Spain's richest towns are located around the country's two biggest cities: Madrid and Barcelona, while the poorest are located in the south of the country in the regions of Andalusia and Extremadura.
Unemployment in Spain rose to 21 percent over the first three months of the year, official statistics showed Thursday, an increase that was quickly shrugged off by acting Economy Minister Luis de Guindos.
Spain's unemployment queue inched up slightly in February, the government said on Wednesday, due mainly to a rise in the number of jobless in the agriculture sector.
Spain's unemployment rate registered a record fall last year, dropping nearly three percentage points to 20.90 percent, according to statistics published on Thursday that confirm the country's economic recovery.
Spain has a special word for the huge proportion of its youth population who neither work nor study and their plight is a key concern for Spanish voters.
Spain's unemployment rate fell to 21.2 percent in the second quarter, its lowest level in four years, official data showed on Thursday, in a further sign of recovery in the eurozone's fourth-largest economy.
Despite its strengthening economy, Spain retains one of the highest unemployment rates in the EU and one pensioner has taken drastic measures to get his son a job.
Building plots left abandoned after the bottom fell out of Spain's construction market have been reborn as urban vegetable as crisis-hit Spaniards rediscover the joy of the allotment.
Many of Spain's five million unemployed dream of finding a steady job in the economic recovery vaunted by the government - but a legion of undeclared workers still scrape by cash-in-hand.
Spain's unemployment rate fell sharply to 22.7 percent in the second quarter, official data showed on Thursday, as the government boasted of creating hundreds of thousands of jobs ahead of an election.
