Statistics: dancing in the economy of services
Local governments, parliamentarians and regional governments are very happy. We are in economic growth, the unemployment rate has fallen. The service is a leading sector and do not understand the group of protests that have called turistophobia, and that have the name of tourism. The peninsular Basque Country is doing well.
Yes, it is true that in recent years the unemployment rate has been reduced. In the CAV it is around 10.8%, somewhat lower in Navarre, and it is believed that these are pre-crisis data. Young people under the age of 24 are the ones who suffer the most as their unemployment rate stands at 28%. Well, they're learning master's and graduate degrees, for which quality employment is scarce, even if it's not the solution. However, due to the precariousness, this magnitude has lost great capacity to explain the situation of workers. 93% of the contracts signed in the CAV were temporary, 40% part-time. The unemployment rate is lower, but the working conditions of employees are worse.
On the one hand, they claim that, time and again, economic growth is taking place in the Basque Country. The Frankestein services sector, which is ahead of industry, construction and the primary sector, is resulting in employment growth in this sector: At the CAPV, eight out of ten jobs. Tourism expenditure has risen from 5.5% of CVD’s GDP between 2005 and 2016 to 6.1%, which is a significant growth. Public institutions have found their Holy Grail to leave the Great Depression: they are driving the services sector, being hospitality, commerce and tourism the most outstanding examples. This is how we understand the development of various infrastructures and the “cultural” events that are taking place in the cities. Because they bring wealth and growth, reducing the unemployment rate.
But what about the wages paid in these sectors? Lack of up-to-date information for sector analysis Despite the differences, data from the 2016 INE for the Kingdom of Spain can be useful. With the average wage, it accounts for 85% of this trade, 69% of administrative and other services activities and 61% of the hospitality industry. In these sectors the gender gap is greater than 30%.
With the sectors that are being promoted comes, yes, a light money, but that is not redistributed among the workers, increasing social polarization. They reduce the unemployment rate, but through precarious and unstable jobs. These are sectors with a significant gender pay gap. Administrations should be careful not to be dazzled by short-term economic growth. Under no circumstances will we take the opposite path to be a cohesive and just society.
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