Employment and Unemployment in our Region
EMPLOYMENT STATUS IN LEPE
As all we know, it is very important to be well-prepared and have a good curriculum to enter the labour market as soon as possible and under the best conditions.
In the last year the number of unemployed has increased considerably, what has caused this? The reason lies with the economic crisis that has caused the closure of many companies and with it the excessive increase in unemployment. In Lepe there are exactly 3,443 unemployed of whom 1,726 are men and 1,717 are women. The highest number of unemployed is concentrated in the construction sector because many houses were built without there being demand and which produced an oversupply. Along with construction other related sectors also collapsed: the electrical, plumbing and furniture sectors, etc. Lepe is the biggest city after Huelva, the capital, so it provided its services to all the coastal areas around. Therefore, when the construction sector collapsed a higher number of unemployment occurred. The majority of unemployed people don’t have any professional training and those with professional training search for work in other countries and emigrate. Curiously when you search for information on the internet, it appears that the highest number of unemployed is in the agriculture sector, but this is not totally accurate because this type of work only needs a workforce at certain times of the year. |
Agriculture is the principal economic activity of Lepe, followed by tourism, especially near summer time because of its beaches.
The government doesn’t help a lot to reduce the unemployment rate because it only provides some local development services, that have recently been stopped. Some towns have employment programmes but due to the situation that we are going through, they can’t provide enough. They also help self-employ people to make new companies to create work. Among others help, they provide courses to introduce new people in to the labour market. Due to the severe crisis that we are going through, this help is insufficient because there is no money. Many people cheat the system, because everyone looks after their own interests. To avoid this there are work inspectors, but they don’t always do their job. This situation hurts the economy and this is one of the causes of the current crisis. We wait for this situation to change soon and for the economy of Spain to improve. Carolina Morales Coro & Estefanía Costa González IES La Arboleda (Lepe, Spain) |
LABOUR MARKET IN LEPE
Lepe is a city which is popular for its beaches and strawberries. People know it because Lepe exports this fruit to all Europe and beaches receive a lot of tourists in summer. However, local people think that there are a lot of unemployment, but the fact that they do not know is that only the 12.64% is unemployed. In Lepe, there are 27.241 inhabitants and 3.443 are unemployed, as you can see in this chart. |
Most part of this unemployed people were workers of the construction sector and all the works related with this sector, like carpenters, glassmakers, painters... because if the most part of this sector disappears they can’t do their jobs.
The sectors with more workers are the agriculture and tourism but this is only during the spring-summer season. In the agriculture the 74% of the land is prepared to grow strawberries. Other fruits like oranges are also very common. In the last years the number of unemployed people has increased too much. In 2009 there were approximately 2571 unemployed people but this numbers was bigger in 2013, rising up to 34% in these 4 years.
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And it is curious the fact that there are less unemployed women than men, as well as in 2009 and in 2013 too. But the difference between them is not too hard.
Moreover, we can separate this information of 2013 considering the age of the unemployed.
People between 25 and 44 years old are in the biggest group of unemployment. A curious thing is that there are not a lot of unemployed younger, that is because they had been studying in a University. Cristina Alvarado and Sara Muriel
IES La Arboleda, Lepe (Spain) |