The peculiarity of the Spanish labor market

The overall figure of 9.93% of the sample was accompanied by the elimination of 32,500 private sector jobs, while the appointment of state employees rose to 108,700 new employees. If it is before the zombie economy, characterized by the vampiric extraction of blood from some sector of the market now and then more anemic, there is a hypertrophic bureaucracy.

Must be added an increase in the labor force in services, 78,300 people compared to a decrease in industry, where it lost 37,800 workers. It reflects the configuration-consolidation of the economic model of low production, little added value and limited competitiveness.

The expansion of the state’s workforce translates into an increase in the state’s labor costs and, consequently, into a structural gas deficit, as it permanently settles at the heart of public accounts. With average public sector wage costs (gross wages plus social contributions) of 50,440 euros a year and a year, just 108,700 people included in the state system in the last quarter of the year foresee an increase in public gas of 5,483 million euros a year, equivalent to 0.35 percentage points of PIB, another problem with fulfilling the fiscal consolidation mandate required by the European Union.

Another fiction about the idyllic trajectory of the labor market is supported by something condemned to infinity: the semantic fraud of the permanent contract, from which the figure of a discontinuous figure has been elevated to the category of dogma to hide uncertainty.

For the fourth quarter of 2025, the EPA shows a decline in the active population of 59,900 people

According to the official sample data in 2025, there are approximately 440,000 discontinuous devices that do not work, but do not count as paradoxes, the actual rate will increase by 11.8%. Creative accounting generates a violation of cases of proportional points between the material reality of families and official governance.

The degradation of the labor market is strongly reflected in the partial complement, where levels are unheard of in any country in the EU and the Eurozone. In the fourth quarter of 2025, full-time employment fell to 115,600 people, a devastating number, “offset” creating 191,800 jobs over time.

Spain is the European leader in the underutilization of its workforce. “Excase” created by the hyper-regulation of the labor market, which makes it impossible for a growing number of Spaniards to cover the basic needs of life with a single work schedule.

Therefore, multi-empleo has grown into a galloping form. About 600,000 people must maintain a concurrent Social Security connection to support them. El Gobierno assumes a historical record of affiliationsbut except that doesn’t mean more people are working because many have to hold down more jobs to survive.

For the fourth quarter of 2025, the EPA shows a decline in the active population of 59,900 people. The activity rate fell to 58.94% compared to the increase in the EU average and in the Eurozone to 75.4 and 75.1%. These data are another glass of water fría to governmental triumphalism.

If the price is low because the face value is contracted, the reason is clear: many individuals have lost hope of work. More than 22% of long-term politicians have left active employment to become inactive (the so-called unfortunate effect) and for mayors aged 50, which is 53% of the collective population, this figure rises to 38%.

Indicators IV. quarters are not positive: real rate 11.8% versus estimate 9.93%; a loss of 115,600 full-time workers before the creation of 191,800; y a suffocation of the private sector that wiped out 32,500 workers while the public sector grew to 108,700.

But unfortunately, the story does not reflect that the global balance of 2025 is simply bad. 245,000 jobs were destroyed 40 hours a week and 410,000 were created at some point.

The private sector saw a net loss of 85,000 employees and the government contracted 220,000 new effective workers. As every private worker disappeared, the public sector created three cases.

In conclusion, it can be stated that the results of the EPA from the 4th quarter of 2025 and the results of the year in their conjunction do not represent a real convergence intervention of the nation-employer binomial, which is the average of the EU and the eurozone, but reflect the process of labor and material decapitalization of Spanish and Spanish workers, the acceleration of the institutional degradation of the middle labor market, the development of which is only the middle labor market.

Country combination “poor workers” with a state that requires more resources every day to finance itself is a disaster.