Lorenzo Amor, president of ATA, has indicated encouraging statistics regarding the autonomous sector. “Every day in 2021 unemployment has been reduced by more than 2,140 people and 156 new self-employed have been added “. “It is great news that 776,400 jobs were created in 2021, surpassing pre-pandemic employment figures and that the number of self-employed grew by almost 57,000 people. Every day I am more clear that politics is going on a very different side of the path followed by the business fabric ”.
“The labor reform that we have had until this month has allowed us to create jobs due to the flexibility it gave to companies. That is why it was essential to preserve those flexibility mechanisms of companies, preserve that essence that creates employment and we have agreed to do so ”, has added Love. “From December 9 The number of workers at ERTE has increased by more than 20,000 people. These are the important mechanisms to avoid destroying jobs.
Unemployment, according to the figures known today, has fallen by 782,232 people throughout 2021, a record figure since it is the most important fall since records have been recorded and represents a decrease of 20.1%. A very different panorama from last year when, in the midst of the pandemic, we were talking about a rise in unemployment by 724,532 people in 2020 and its biggest annual rebound since 2009. In 2021, 19,384,359 contracts were signed, 21.6% more than in 2020. Of these, just over 2.11 million, representing 10.9% of the total, were indefinite.
Self-employed figures
In 2021 the number of self-employed in Spain has increased by 56,991 people to 3,328,399 self-employed. It is the highest figure since 2008, when the year ended with 3,319,188 self-employed workers. In the last month, 2,990 have joined the RETA.
Only one autonomous community, The Rioja, has seen the number of freelancers fall in 2021 by 0.2%, registering 25,262 freelancers at the end of December 2021, 51 people less than last year.
The Canary Islands lead this positive increase with a percentage increase in 2021 of 4.1% (+5,259 self-employed), followed by the Balearic Islands (+ 3%), Andalusia, which increased its figures in one year by 2.7% and the Community of Madrid with an increase of 2.4%.
In absolute figures, there is an increase that we have already commented on in Andalusia, a community in which one in four new self-employed in Spain register.
By gender, it stands out that more than half of the increase in the self-employed is due to female entrepreneurial drive, which was the one that suffered the most during the pandemic and that has recovered the figure of 1,205,929 self-employed workers, adding 33,805 in one year, an increase of 2.9%. By sectors, only transport loses 0.6% of its self-employed.
