The province of A Coruña He destroyed during confinement around 13,300 jobs, as revealed by Active Population Survey published today. The province concentrates almost half of the job destruction registered in Galicia in the second quarter of the year, the period in which the hardest part of the coronavirus pandemic and the bulk of the confinement were registered. This balance does not include those affected by the Temporary Employment Regulation Files.
The number of employed decreased almost three percent, in line with the decrease registered in the whole of Galicia. The number of unemployed also fell, with 5,300 fewer unemployed. This decrease is produced by people who gave up their job search during confinement due to the null possibilities of finding a job.
Data from Galicia
In Galicia, 32,600 jobs were destroyed (-3.01%) in the second quarter, when those employed fell to a total of 1,050,000, while unemployment fell by 14,200 people compared to the previous three months, to a total of 142,500 unemployed, 9% less, which contrasts with the rise in Spain of 55,000 unemployed (+ 1.66%).
Data analysis
The economic analyst Carlos Sánchez Tembleque warns that the worst is yet to come. With the end of the ERTE, unemployment will skyrocket: “Spain and Galicia are going to suffer a lot, but I believe that Galicia, and especially in the north of Galicia, less; but it is clear that unemployment is going to increase” .
The most negative economic data will be recorded at the end of the year and the beginning of the next. Sánchez Tembleque sees the area of A Coruña prepared to withstand the blow: “It has an important muscular economic structure that is very resistant to the crisis, we have the first multinational in Spain, we have an increase in the population that has been brutal in the last 25 years one of the most important ICT industry in Spain, we have a financial institution and that only happens in four communities in Spain, that is a brutal strength “.
The economic analyst points out that the bulk of the European fund will go to the consequences of the crisis, but is confident that a part can be directed to reconstruction policies.
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