La Comunitat, among the Spanish regions with the most long-term unemployed

The unemployment rate in Spain has multiplied by 2.4 between 2007 and 2016, but the long-term unemployment rate has multiplied by 5.8 in the last eight years. This is revealed in the latest report published by the BBVA-Ivie Foundation.

The unemployment rate of those who have been looking for a job for at least a year has reduced by 3.4% since 2012. However, the percentage representing the unemployed group who have been looking for a job for four or more years has experienced minimal Email Data reductions in this period. In 2007, only 5.5% of the unemployed population had been looking for work for four or more years, while in 2013 it stood at 13.3%, and in 2016, despite several quarters of reduction in unemployment as a whole , this percentage increased to 24.1% of the total unemployed.

At the opposite pole, the unemployed population that has been looking for work for less than a year represented 76.3% of the unemployed in our country in 2007, while in 2013 this percentage was reduced to 41.6%, and has practically remained the same. stable until 2016. Therefore, the report reveals that economic improvement and employment growth is focused on some population groups and excludes others.

State unemployment map
The increase in search time and the large number of people doing everything possible to get a job for four or more years is observed generically in all Spanish regions, but with differences of up to 12.7 percentage points between the extremes. The Valencian Community is among the five autonomous communities with the highest percentage of unemployed, 25%, who have been looking for employment for more than four years. Along with it, Castilla-La Mancha, the Canary Islands, La Rioja and the Principality of Asturias are the most affected communities. On the other hand, the Balearic Islands, the Foral Community of Navarra and Aragón do not exceed 20%.



The population over 50 years of age, the most affected
Almost 40% of the unemployed population aged 50 and over is part of the long-term unemployed group that has been seeking employment for four or more years. This population group presents a special vulnerability in terms of unemployment and risk of poverty. One of the main causes of this situation is low qualifications, since only 8.9% of unemployed people aged 50 or over have university studies. Furthermore, age itself becomes the second element that makes it difficult to find a job. In contrast, only 10.6% of the population under 30 years of age has this difficulty in finding work.

The Gini index skyrockets
In the period between 2007 and 2013, characterized by the economic crisis, inequality increased, for all workers, by 9%. This increase is 14.2% when we add the unemployed who receive unemployment benefits, due to the lower income of the unemployed and the growth in the number of unemployed. But what represents a substantial change in inequality is the incorporation of unemployed people without any type of income, which due to its enormous growth during the time of crisis, triggers the Gini index up to 50.1, experiencing an increase of 26.2% compared to 2007.