The Spanish labor market resisted last year against a war, against runaway inflation and against a pressing threat of recession at an international level. And, although the IMF has already warned that 2023 will be quite hard , Spain managed to close 2022 with a historical record of Social Security affiliations: 20.3 million workers . Furthermore, this figure was achieved despite the fact that many fewer contracts were signed than in previous years. Thanks to the labor reform, which just celebrated its first year a few days ago, 4 million fewer contracts were needed than in 2019 to reach that figure . Even so, the year that has just begun is seen as a complicated year in terms of job creation. At least this is what the latest report prepared by the personnel selection and hiring firm ManpowerGroup stipulates , the Employment Projection Study for the first quarter of 2023. Spain creates more jobs than ever by signing fewer contracts than before A waiter at Bar Postas, in Madrid.
The analysis—in which up to 41 markets are examined internationally—confirms that only 25% of companies in Spain plan to hire during the first quarter of 2023, which places the Spanish labor market with a prospect of generating jobs. net employment Jamaica Mobile Number List of only 3%. The situation in Spain thus contrasts with much more optimistic markets such as France , which expects job creation of 29%, Portugal (23%) or Italy (10%), and which is also far from the global average (23%). . By sector, the contracting firm points out in its study that the one with the worst forecasts is Energy and Supplies , which expects a drop of 16% (that is, job destruction) and which contrasts with industries such as information technologies ( or IT ), which has a hiring expectation of 8% or Transportation, logistics and automotive, of 5%. Through a statement, the general director of ManpowerGroup Spain , Francisco Ribeiro.
A euphemism to talk about pure and simple income, cash flow, business, marketable product, hard cash. No red numbers in exchange for promises. The funds want safe bets, they want money and they want it now. The figures reflect this moment exactly. After a more than promising start to the year and that even improved the figures of a record 2021, 2022 closes with less than 3.5 billion euros invested in startups in Spain, according to the Startup Observatory of the Bankinter Foundation. The figure represents 20% less than what was recorded a year ago. On the other hand, the volume of exits , of companies sold, remains at a mere 1,200 million euros, 65% less than a year ago. It is the general tone. During the first 11 months of the year, Spanish companies carried out just over 27,000 capital increase operations, 0.23% more than in the same period of 2021. However, in volume this increase in the number of operations translated into just under 18,000 million euros, almost 35% less than last year , according to Axesor, a global information services company, and its Business Radar of Expansions of Capital.