Madrid. In the third quarter in 2007, confirmed temporary job agency association Agett yesterday, there were 380'000 foreigners in Spain out of a job but that has now risen to 1'182'400.
The unemployment rate amongst the foreign community in Spain has tripled in this period, from 11.8% in the third quarter of 2007 to 34.8% in the third quarter of this year. One in every three foreigners who can and wants to work, is unemployed.
Within these five years, the total number of unemployed in Spain has grown by nearly 4 million people, of which 802'400 are foreigners, 20.1% of the total. The figures mean that one in every five jobless generated by the crisis has been foreign.
Agett claimed in its report that the worst year for the foreign community was in 2009, as it was for the national population. For the first time, the number of unemployed foreigners exceeded one million for the first time in 2009.
The typical profile of an unemployed foreigner in Spain, said Agett is male aged between 25 and 44, with secondary school education. The association purported that the lower the education level, the greater the likelihood of unemployment; 57,.6 percent of the unemployed foreign population is illiterate whilst those with doctorates make up just 15% of the total. Since the start of the crisis, 635'000 jobs held by foreigners have disappeared. Since the crisis started, jobs have gone the fastest in the Basque Country, Extremadura and Asturias whilst the Balearics, Canaries, Andalucia, Cantabria, Galicia and Aragon have actually managed to create employment in the third quarter of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011.
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