Spain records a drop of more than 16,000 job vacancies in the second quarter, the largest since 2008
The 143,359 positions for which no workers are found represent a rate of unfilled positions of 0.8%, one tenth less than at the beginning of the year.
Spain's labour market saw a record 159,800 job vacancies at the start of the year. However, this trend was broken in the second quarter, with 143,359 vacancies, according to Eurostat. This represents a decrease of 16,438 vacancies, or 10%, from the first quarter. It is the largest drop in the second quarter in almost twenty years.
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