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Spain lockdown leaves one million jobless but not 'unemployed'

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The coronavirus epidemic has destroyed the jobs of over a million Spaniards, but with lockdowns preventing them from looking for work, they were excluded from the unemployment count, data showed Tuesday.

Figures published by the National Statistics Institute showed the number of unemployed rose by only 55,000 between April and June to 3.4 million.But those figures significantly underestimate the impact of the virus on the Spanish job market which registered a 1.07 million drop in the number of people employed during the second quarter, the INE said.

In the second quarter, the number of hours worked experienced"an unprecedented fall" of nearly 23 percent, the INE said. Construction and industry lost more than 100,000 jobs, while the impact on the agricultural sector was less, with 21,400 jobs lost.

 

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