Concept in Definition ABC

The term mileurista is a word that is widely used in Spain, although, she is quite new, since she was minted in 2005 for precisely a Spanish citizen, Carolina Sheriff, who created it inspired by their situation professional and economic, because mileurista is that young individual, who is normally between 25 and 30 years of age, who holds a ssolid and prominent academic training such as being a master's degree, postgraduate or languages, although, it performs an activity labor that is well below his level and capacity and for the same receives an income that does not exceed a thousand euros per month.

Carolina Alguacil, in a letter that she made public in the El País newspaper, one of the two most important newspapers in the country, mentioned the term for the first time assuming its status as mileurista and from that moment on the term was to run through the language current and to this day it is an extremely popular term.

Unfortunately, in recent years in Spain and as a consequence of the deep economic crisis that has been affecting the country and also of a type of labor market that does not balance in the relationship

training-income, mileuristas have proliferated.

As announced by the National Institute of Statistics Spanish, the salary The average number of Spaniards in 2007 amounted to 1,686 euros per month, however, such a figure is not the reality of the not much less, being that many Spanish workers who have the aforementioned characteristics earn less than 1,100 euros.

It should be noted that the term comes from the expression a thousand euros.

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