Martes, 3 de Noviembre de 2009, 3:36hs
Fuente: Reuters

ECONOMÍA - Empleo

Spain's jobless rises 2.7 pct in Oct vs Sept

MADRID, Nov 3 . - Spanish jobless claims rose in October by 98,906 or 2.7 percent from September to 3.8 million people, almost a million more than a year earlier, the Labour Ministry said on Tuesday.

"Unemployment continues to rise in line with expectations, but at a lesser rate than the same month last year," Employment Secretary General Maravillas Rojo said in a statement.

Spain's jobless leapt 7 percent in October 2008 from a month earlier as the international financial crisis took hold.

Layoffs in the service industry rose 2.9 percent month-on-month, accounting for almost two thirds of all job losses during the month.

Unemployment rose 1.2 percent in construction, by 1.1 percent in the industrial sector and by 12.4 percent in agriculture.

Spain only provides quarterly data on the unemployment rate, but according to the European Union statistics office, it stood at 19.3 percent in September compared to the average for the 27-member EU of 9.2 percent.

(Reporting by Paul Day, editing by Sarah Morris)

Keywords: SPAIN JOBLESS/