INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "Post-crisis ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF European Union AND BULGARIA" BULGARIANs in THE LABOUR MARKET IN SPAIN

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE"Post-crisis ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT OF European Union AND
BULGARIA"BULGARIANs in THE LABOUR MARKET IN
SPAIN

• Assist.prof. Irena Zareva
• Economic Research Institute, BAS

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Bulgarians in Spain

• Nearly 70 of the Bulgarian immigrants in Spain
  are employed.
• The main part of them had no assured working
  place at their arrival in the country (76,8) and
  they accomplished their departures through
  invitations from relatives or without preliminary
  preparation.

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Bulgarians in Spain

• Structure of Bulgarian immigrants by availability
  of assured working place at arrival in Spain ()

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Employment by economic activity

• They work mainly in the sectors hotels and
  restaurants, household/family activities and
  other public and personal service activities,
  agriculture and construction and least in
  health and social work, public administration,
  education, mining and electricity, gas and water
  supply.

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Employment by economic activity

• Structure of employed Bulgarian immigrants by
  economic activity ()

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Employment by economic activity and gender

• Structure of Bulgarian employed immigrants by
  economic activity and gender ()

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Employment by economic activity in Bulgaria and
in Spain

• Structure of the employed immigrants in Bulgaria
  and in Spain ()

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Employment by occupations

• Bulgarians work mainly as service workers,
  unskilled workers and skilled manufacturing
  workers. Smallest is the share of the employed as
  clerks and professionals.

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Employment by occupations

• Structure of Bulgarian immigrants by occupations
  in Spain ()

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Employment by occupations and gender

• Structure of employed by occupations and gender
  ()

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Employment by occupations in Bulgaria and in Spain

• Structure of Bulgarian immigrants in Bulgaria and
  in Spain by occupations ()

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Employment according to the acquired
qualification

• More than half of the immigrants work at places
  which require qualification similar to the
  qualification they have acquired, but 42,1 work
  at places which require lower qualification.
  There are disparities between the previous
  employment in Bulgaria and the present in Spain,
  especially for the qualified and highly qualified
  specialists, which demonstrates that Bulgarian
  immigrants lose qualification.

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Employment according to the acquired
qualification

• Structure of employed immigrants according to the
  qualification they have acquired and the needed
  qualification for the working places in Spain ()

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Employment by type of contract

• The prevailing part of the immigrants are insured
  and work with temporary or permanent employment
  contract, or as self employed. Not a small part
  of them, however, work without a contract (most
  of which women), in the grey sector of the
  Spanish economy, and 23,1 are unemployed.

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Employment by type of contract

• Structure of immigrants by type of employment
  contract ()

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Employment status

• Structure of immigrants by employment status ()

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Employment of Bulgarians abroad

• The results from the survey show that there are
  no substantial differences between the status of
  the employed Bulgarians on the Spanish and other
  countries labour market.

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Employment by economic activities of the return
migrants in Bulgaria
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Employment by occupations of the return migrants
in Bulgaria
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Employment according to the acquired
qualification of the return migrants in Bulgaria
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Bulgarians abroad

• Despite that a large part of the Bulgarians
  abroad lose qualification, that many of them work
  in the grey sector of the economy or are
  unemployed, they prefer to live and/or work
  abroad.