Despite this, the total number of unemployed in September was 13.2% lower than in the same month in 2014, representing a drop of 8.562, and this was the second highest decrease in the country after La Rioja with a percentage fall of 14.9%. The Balearics can, therefore, point to 23 months of uninterrupted lowering of the rate of unemployment.
With 26,087 people joining the ranks of the unemployed, the number is similar to the rise in unemployment in September 2013 when it was 25,572 and above 2014 (19,720).
Since such data started to be gathered in 1996, there have been only three Septembers which have produced drops in the unemployment rate - 2005, 2006 and 2007.
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I assume a lot of this additional unemployment is to do with hotels beginning to close down for the winter so visitors have nowhere to go?
When the tourist tax comes in the island will have a long long summer as well depression is looming
And unemployment will go through the roof in October as the island, yet again, shuts down for a long, long winter...