So it's also worth noting that Spain is a country with some of the best protections for employees in the world. Until 2012, it was the law that if you fired a permanent employee, you had to pay them 45 days' worth of wages for every year they worked for you. Naturally, this made businesses look for ways to get around having to treat employees like valuable people so they could find a loophole, which they did. By hiring people as temps who don't qualify for the protections that permanent employees do, they got around this law. An estimate from El Pai says that 25% of the workforce is made up of these temporary employees who are not included as employed in official statistics. So at any given point in time, though the unemployment rate is like 14% or 15%, 10% of that 14% or 15% is constantly cycling a different job. Maybe not that much, but yes. A considerable amount are not considered in the statistics because of their temporary status. The percentage is even higher among the youth, as you might expect, which explains why the youth unemployment rate is substantially higher from just visually looking at it. Nobody likes paying young people to do anything. At that point, 93 out of every 100 job contracts signed were temp jobs. Back when this article came out. That's not good. This is why the Spanish unemployment rate appears to be so high. Under ideal conditions, it's already and always pretty much consistently higher than you might expect. But now the number is inflated by putting workers into abusive middle grounds. It's like what we see here with the gig economy.