Policy area: employment
Short description: is the first business group in the Basque Country and one of the main groups in Spain with economic activity in the industry, finances, distribution and knowledge sectors. This group is composed of 103 cooperatives.
Quantitative evidences: Increase employment achievement for those people most vulnerable for being unemployed. Oñati’s unemployment rate of 2014 for people older than 45 years, long term unemployment or people among 16-64 years old is lower compared to the region, province and autonomous community rates. Moreover, the unemployment rate for people older than 45 years in this region is around five times less than the Spanish rate. Then the Mondragón Corporation creates job in all the autonomous communities of Spain, and with significant numbers in Catalonia (6.837), Galicia (4.252) and Navarra (4.104). They have also international presence.