Between April and June, employment in Spain decreased by 7.5% according to Eurostat. This comes on top of a 1% decline in the first quarter of the year. In other words, the number of employed persons dropped by around 8% in the first half of the year. Figures provided by the National Statistics Institute (INE) show that the number of employed individuals fell by 1.35 million between January and June.
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