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Start-ups fill void left by Spain’s 26pc jobless rate
By Agencies Featured stories and job trends
Spain
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jobless
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Entrepreneurship
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OECD
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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Over the first seven months of the year, registrations of self-employed people in Spain rose by 21,992 while they fell by 6,826 over the same period a year earlier. Thanks to necessity entrepreneurship – people who create a business to exit unemployment rather than by opportunity – the number of companies created increased by 8.2 per cent in the first half as a 26pc jobless rate spurs entrepreneurship in a country where the government still accounts for one in six jobs.
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