All statistical data coincide in the fact that if 2013 was the year in which employment was created again in Spain, 2014 was when this trend was consolidated so that it can already be said that net employment is created in Spain, even in sectors that were sunk to the waterline by the crisis such as construction
Despite that we still have an unemployment rate of 23,7% of the working-age population, 2014 has meant the creation of 433.900 jobs. Of these, 280.300 are jobs for people over 50 years of age. It can be stated without fear of being wrong that 2014 has been a year in which employment has been created with a drop in unemployment by 477.900 people and the creation of 433.900.
In this job recovery, the most benefited have been the 50 over yearsThis is a paradoxical result if one takes into account that most companies want their employees the younger the better. In any case, the employment takeoff of 2014 cannot erase the more than 7 years of job destruction.
Today there are more than five million unemployed people in Spain, counting on the fact that Behind these numbers are human and vital dramas of the first magnitude. Unfortunately there are 1.760.000 households in which all its members are unemployed and 731.000 of them have no income.
However, the data held by the National Institute of Statistics does allow one to guess a net job creation trend which began in 2013 and has been consolidated in 2014. For the first time in a long time in Spain, job creation is not marked by seasonality, which is usually concentrated in the summer months.
Such is the new panorama of employment in Spain that even employment is created even in the until recently comatose construction sector. In this sector and in 2014, about 40.000 jobs were created. In any case, it must be borne in mind, to put these data into value, that in 7 years of the brick crisis, 1.700.000 jobs have been destroyed in this sector.