Spain: Spanish companies’ forecasts in respect of employment growth are optimistic, foreseeing an increase of 1.5% until mid 2007

The official statistics on the state of the employment market at the end of the second quarter 2006 show that in relation to the same period last year an increase of 4.8% has occurred, with almost 13,000,000 people now employed in the country. Compared to the situation at the end of the second quarter 2005, 588.700 new jobs have been created. The construction sector has overtaken all the others, showing an increase of 9% in its workforce. Moreover the strongest increase has been in female employment, which has increased by 7.1% whereas the growth in the number of men employed has only been 3.2%. In other words, less than half. Indeed despite the employment market, reforms that came into force on 1st July and favour the conversion of fixed term contracts to permanent contracts, temporary employment continues to increase at a more sustained rythm.
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t for companies with more than 250 employees, where the increase of employment is only expected to be 0.7%.

The official statistics on the state of the employment market at the end of the second quarter 2006 show that in relation to the same period last year an increase of 4.8% has occurred, with almost 13,000,000 people now employed in the country. Compared to the situation at the end of the second quarter 2005, 588.700 new jobs have been created. The construction sector has overtaken all the

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