Catalonia has registered an increase in employment of 9,394 employed persons during the month of September, compared to August, until consolidating a total number of employed persons of 3.7 million members to Social Security. Although he has been the September weakest since 2019, the Catalan labor market has managed to close the month above the symbolic level of 3.7 million active workers, a historical record that it broke this past spring, but that after the end of the tourist season in August he lost.
Unlike Spain as a whole, which in terms of unemployment registered its second consecutive month of increases, the Catalan provinces saw the number of registered in the public offices of the Sepe. Catalonia left a reduction of 3,440 people compared to those inherited in the month of August, up to a total of 335,432 unemployed. It is the lowest number of unemployed in a month of September since 2007, before the real estate and financial crisis broke out.
Catalonia has saved the day this September in terms of job creation, since the most common thing on the Spanish autonomous map has been the red numbers. With the significant exception of the Madrid’s communitywhich until now had a bad 2023 and which has led the creation of employment this September, with 47,764 new Social Security affiliates.
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A figure five times higher than that recorded by Catalonia, which has seen the negative balances of Tarragona (-5,337), Lleida (-6,249) and Girona (-14,081) -who have finalized the last contracts for the tourist season and/or the fruit harvesting campaign- have played against him. The province of Barcelona, with an increase of 35,060 employees, did register a positive balance in September.
In the duel between locomotives, so far this year Catalonia has grown by 113,989 employees, compared to 41,399 in the Spanish capital; That is to say, Madrid has contributed four times fewer active workers to Spain as a whole so far this year.