Toledo (EFE) It was 11,514 unemployed, 7.82% less.
Social Security, for its part, added 8,024 contributors (1.07%) in April compared to the previous month, and thus reached 758,807 affiliates, 13,975 more than a year ago (1.88%), according to data published this Thursday. by the Ministries of Labor and Social Security.
Castilla-La Mancha, among the regions where the number of unemployed falls the most
Unemployment fell in April, the month in which Holy Week was celebrated, in all the autonomous communities and Castilla-La Mancha was the second with the highest relative monthly drop, behind the Balearic Islands, and the third in absolute terms, behind of Andalusia and Catalonia.
It fell in all sectors, especially in services, which included 5,051 fewer unemployed than the total of 6,645 people who left the unemployment lists in April in Castilla-La Mancha, where 498 fewer unemployed were also registered in the agriculture, 428 fewer in industry, 358 in construction and 310 fewer unemployed in the group without previous employment.
Unemployment falls in the five provinces of the region
By Castilian-La Mancha provinces, there were also decreases in the five: 1,110 fewer unemployed in Albacete, 1,808 in Ciudad Real, 542 in Cuenca, 809 in Guadalajara and 2,376 fewer unemployed in Toledo.
In year-on-year terms, the number of unemployed also fell between 4,107 less in the province of Toledo and 780 in Cuenca.
Of the total of 135,744 Castilian-La Mancha unemployed, 46,842 are men and 88,902 are women; and furthermore, 9,835 are under 25 years of age, of which 4,916 are men and 4,919 are women.
In April, 45,593 contracts were formalized in Castilla-La Mancha, which is 3,337 less than the previous month and 4,305 less than a year ago.
19,380 contracts were permanent and the rest, 26,213, temporary.
In Spain, Social Security added 238,436 affiliates in April, a record figure for that month and the second best record in the entire series, while unemployment fell by 73,890 people to 2.78 million, levels not seen since 2008 in a market also animated by Easter and the start of the summer campaign. EFE