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Unemployment in the city grew by 347 people in January, 1.5%, which represents the smallest increase in January in the past nine years in which the average was 4.4%, as reported by the Councillor for Employment and Sustainable Development, Joaquín Segado.
The rise is lower than the averages of Spain and the region, according Segado, who also stressed that the low youth unemployment, a sector of the population, with 1.5% fewer unemployed in January.
On the contrary, in the first month of the year contracts rose 12% respects to December and were 6% higher than January 2014.
To Segado, January is usually a bad month for employment throughout Spain for the completion of contracts related to the hospitality and the Christmas trade, but this was the least worst January in nearly a decade;
which has emphasized the importance of looking at the evolution of the labor market in the medium term to conclusions about the evolution of unemployment are more accurate.
"What we know today is that this was the least worst January in a decade, that 2014 was the second year that closed with fall in unemployment in seven years and now in Cartagena there are 1,800 unemployed less than two years ago, when the Unemployment peaked, "concluded the councilor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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