The end of summer in Spain brought with it the usual loss of temporary jobs linked to the holiday season, but this year the impact was less severe than usual. According to the article, approximately 160,000 jobs were lost in August, a number that, although significant, represents a less traumatic reduction in seasonal hiring.
The sectors that most contributed to this destruction of employment were those that had reinforced their teams during the peak months of tourist activity and summer activity, such as hospitality, commerce, and leisure-related services.
The factor that helped soften this negative impact was the recent extraordinary regularization of immigrants carried out by the Spanish government. This measure allowed thousands of migrant workers to be formally included in the labor market, partially compensating for the losses in seasonal employment.
However, the article warns that this same regularization is also inflating unemployment statistics, since many of these regularized workers now officially appear as unemployed in the official records, contributing to an apparent increase in unemployment that does not necessarily reflect a real worsening of the labor market conditions.
