Spain saw its unemployment rate rise by 19,720 people in September, the lowest increase in joblessness the country has recorded for that month in the past eight years.
The fall in Spanish salaries during the country's crisis, one of the largest in the OECD, could actually hamper the country's recovery by bringing on deflation and killing off consumer demand, the OECD has warned in a new report.
UPDATED: A total of 8,070 people joined Spain's jobless queues in August, the first rise in unemployment after six months of improvement, official figures released on Tuesday show.
The number of unemployed people in Spain fell by nearly 30,000 in July to hit 4,419,860 — the lowest figure since Spain's current government took power, employment ministry figures released on Monday show.
Almost half of all Spaniards still think the country's job situation is going to get worse before it improves but optimism is growing, the results of a new European Union poll released on Friday reveal.
Over 400,000 people went back to work in the second quarter of 2014, the highest such three-month figure since the middle of 2005, official figures released on Thursday show.
The Spanish economy continued to claw its slow way back towards recovery, expanding in the first quarter of 2014 by 0.5 percent, the fastest rate in six years, the central bank said on Wednesday.
Almost one in every five advertisements for overseas jobs in Spain is posted by a German firm, with the UK not far behind a new study shows. But it turns out Spaniards are also less willing to work abroad than a year ago.
The number of unemployed people who have given up hope of finding a job has risen by 21 per cent since 2011 and now totals almost half a million, new figures from Spain's national statistic institute reveal.
Only 58.2 percent of people in Spain aged 20 to 64 were working in 2013, the third lowest figure in the European Union, figures released on Monday show.
Spain had only one job opening for every 110 unemployed people in the final three months of 2013, the second worst rate in the European Union, a new study released on Wednesday shows.
UPDATED: Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy declared on Tuesday that a job-wrecking trend had been snapped after new figures showed a record slump in the jobless queue in April.
Spain will grow faster than previously forecast in the next two years, but unemployment won't come down below 24 percent and public deficit will remain high, the European Commission said on Monday.
Spain's unemployment rate climbed to nearly 26 percent in the first quarter of 2014, official data showed Tuesday, as millions searched in vain for a job in a halting recovery from recession, but the news was not all bad.
Spain has managed to push down its unemployment rate to 25.77 percent — by adjusting the formulas used to establish the country's jobless rate to include the latest census data.
Some 36.3 percent of people are out of work in Spain's Andalusia's region: that's the most in Europe and 14 times higher than in Germany's Upper Bavaria, which has the lowest jobless rate in the EU, figures released on Tuesday show.
More and more young Spaniards, forced to leave home by crippling unemployment, are attracted to London by the prospect of work and the chance to learn English — but often run into a fresh set of problems.
Despite the government's recent announcements that the worst of the crisis is over, a measly one percent of the Spanish population thinks the economic situation is "good", a new survey reveals.
Spain's rich have been left virtually unaffected by the crisis while the poor have seen their incomes seriously dented, a new OECD study shows. Here The Local outlines the report's key findings.
The Spanish government expects first quarter growth to "at least" match the 0.2 percent expansion posted in the final quarter of 2013, Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said on Tuesday.
One in ten jobseekers in Spain have never been able to get their foot in the door, making it 576,900 people who are trapped in the vicious circle of no work – no experience.
Only one in five Spaniards believes Spain's economy will improve over the next 12 months, despite repeated assertions from the government that the country's economy has turned the corner, a new poll shows.
