2024-01-04 09:30:29
The Alt Empordà and the Baix Empordà have closed the year leading the drop of unemployment in the province of Girona, being the two regions of the demarcation where the percentage of unemployed people has fallen the most. Alt Empordà closed 2021 with 6,175 people unemployed, while this 2023 there were 5,704 people, a drop of 7.6%. As for Baix Empordà, the Girona region ended 2023 with 4,719 people without a job, 6.7% less than last year.
In general terms, the different regions of Girona have ended the year with good unemployment figures compared to the last month of 2022. In La Selva, the unemployed have fallen by 4.1%, figures similar to those in Pla de l’Estany where unemployment has fallen by 3.3%. Below these data is Gironès (-2.1%). However, it is not all good news for Girona. Unemployment has increased in three counties: in Garrotxa, where it has done so anecdotally with more unemployment than a year ago and an increase of 0.05%; and in Cerdanya and Ripollès, where the increase was 3.7% in both regions.
Despite the fact that some of the mountain districts of the province are the ones that have recorded worse data in terms of the variation in the number of unemployed people, they are the demarcations with a lowest unemployment rate on record. In Cerdanya, for example, the registered unemployment rate, which measures the existing relationship between registered unemployment and an approximation of the registered active population, is 4.7%. Low rates have also been recorded in other mountain regions of Girona. In Pla de l’Estany by 6%, in Garrotxa by 6.5% and in Ripollès by 7.1%.
Girona’s economy closes in 2023 creating more than 11,000 jobs
All the regions of Girona are below 10%. The list is completed by Baix Empordà (7.6%); Gironès (8.5%); Alt Empordà (8.7%) and Selva (9.9%). Despite the fact that no county exceeds the double-digit barrier in terms of the registered unemployment rate, some important municipalities in the province do, such as Salt (13.2%), Blanes (12%) or Figueres (11.4%).
Guidance for finding work
The Government has committed to hiring 230 new career counselors to help unemployed people find work. This is one of the points agreed with employers and unions that is included in the agreement for the new budgets. Strengthening public employment services is one of the commitments that the Catalan Executive has agreed with social agents. And despite the fact that Catalonia has been immersed in a labor market expansion process for two years, the unemployment rate remains one of the highest in all of Europe.
The Employment Service of Catalonia (SOC) will strengthen the workforce during the year 2024 with a total of 230 new professional guidance counselors. Technicians specialized in charting training itineraries and accompanying unemployed people, especially those who have been looking for a new job for more than a year without success. What is technically known as long-term unemployment and which mainly affects those over 45.
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