The April RETA shows a growth in the number of self-employed of 12,959 more, compared to March 2023. However, from ATA they send a negative message: “It is the third worst affiliation data in a month of April of the entire decade.” Thus, in year-on-year terms, “It is a figure twelve times lower than the interannual growth that there was last year, which was 39,704 self employed further”.
The data reflects lights and shadows in the job market with an increase in affiliation, but you have to be very prudent because. according to the association, It is expected that there will be a loss of self-employed this year. “It is very difficult, once the month of June passes, for us to be able to maintain the year-on-year growth that we have right now. There would have to be a very important change”has indicated Lorenzo Amor.
“It is logical that in the months of May and June there will be growth in the number of self-employed workers again, but we will have to see what their behavior is like. We all know that since the month of July the number begins to decrease and we will have to see how much it decreases and how much can be the loss that we have this year. Everything indicates that it will be a new year of loss of self-employed employees”added Love.
The number of registered unemployed in the Public Employment Services Offices has also been known, which decreased by 73,890 people in April in relation to the previous month (-2.6%), which leaves the total number of registered unemployed at 2,788,370. for the first time this month since 2008 this figure is below 2.8 million.
Only six communities register increases
In the last year, April 2023, April 2022, there have been 11 autonomous communities that have lost self-employed workers, and there are only 6 that register a growth in the number of RETA affiliates: Balearic Islands (+2.5%), Canary Islands (+2.5%), Andalusia (+0.7%), Valencian Community (+0.9%), Madrid Community (+0.5%) and Murcia ( +0.1%).
Except for Ceuta, the community with the greatest loss of self-employed workers is La Rioja, which has fallen by 2% in the register of RETA affiliates, losing 506 self-employed workers in one year.
On the other hand, the data shows that, in April, we continue to lose self-employed in the trade sector with 19,000 less than last year, which represents a drop in one year of 2.5%. 2,931 have also been lost farmers in a year, and there are 3,068 less self-employed in the industry. Other sectors that have lost in the last year are the hospitality (-0.6%), transport (-0.3%) and insurance (-1.3%) sectors.
By gender, we can say that It is female entrepreneurship that slows the fall and those that lead RETA to positive signs since they have added 0.7% of self-employed women in one year while men have decreased on the same dates by 0.3%.
