Yes, there are many unemployed people because the Spanish government doesn't invest in research and development. For this reason, there aren't enough companies. Also, if you want to create / set up a new company, first you must pay a lot of fees / start-up costs. In England, there are areas with high unemployment, especially poor areas of big cities and some remote, rural areas. On the whole, we are lucky that most people who are able to work actually do have jobs. Espero que las cosas se mejoraran en España en el futuro. Saludos, Michael

The answer is not so obvious for Russia. If we take into consideration just official data then this level is pretty low. According to last estimation by our government statictic agency it is about 5-6 % Unfortunatelly it is common for former USSR countries to suffer from high level of quazi unemployment. When by virtue of documents an employee has a job, but de facto he/she doesn't go for a work, gets no salary, no insurance etc. It is rather tiypical situation for farm households, different factories if they can't get a public contract. Or for instance by our law an employer can essential decrease its rate of taxes by hiring a definite quantity of disabled persons.But as it demands additional expenses on special equipment for working places and so on, it is more preferable for this unfair employer to hire them just on paper. The situation with opening new companies and starting your own business is more or less the same like in Spain. You have to overcome numerous obstacles like overgrown bureaucracy and invest a lot on first stage. So the share of small-scale business is so regrettable. So it is a huge distance between unemployment rate de jure and de facto! BR, Lubov

Yes, there are many unemployed because the Spanish government don't invest in research and development. For this reason there aren't enought companies. Also If you want to create a new company first you must pay lots of duties.