Spanish Sociedades Laborales--Activating the Unemployed: A Potential New Eu Active Labour Market Policy Instrument

ISBN-13: 9783319548692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 129 str.

Jens Lowitzsch; Sophie Dunsch; Iraj Hashi

Opis

This book investigates the potential of the Spanish Sociedades Laborales (SLs) as an instrument of active labour market policy for re-turning the unemployed to the labour market and also the transferability of the scheme to other EU Member States.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction to the Sociedades Laborales Program.- Chapter 2. Regulatory framework for the Sociedades Laborales Program.- Chapter 3. Empirical data on Sociedades Laborales, 1999-2013.- Chapter 4. Evaluation of the Sociedades Laborales Program.- Chapter 5. Conclusions for Integrating the Concept of Sociedades Laborales.

O autorze

Jens Lowitzsch is Kelso Professor of Comparative Law, East European Business Law and European Legal Policy at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt-on-Oder, Germany.

Sophie Dunsch is Research Associate and Chair of Economics at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt-on-Oder, Germany.

Iraj Hashi is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Emerging Economies at Staffordshire University Business School, UK.

Blurb

This book investigates the potential of the Spanish Sociedades Laborales (SLs) as an instrument of active labour market policy for re-turning the unemployed to the labour market. SLs are  mostly small and micro enterprises and a qualified form of the conventional corporation, majority-owned by their permanent employees. Unemployed persons can capitalise their unemployment benefits as a lump sum to start a new SL or to recapitalise an existing SL by joining it. This makes SLs similar to start-up subsidies for the unemployed, an established instrument of active labour market policy across the EU. This book examines the function and success of existing SLs and explores the transferability of the scheme to other EU Member States.

It tackles two widely discussed policy issues at both the EU level as well as the national level: firstly, the reactivation of the unemployed into work, and secondly the encouragement of employee co-ownership in the context of the economic reform agenda, in particular with regard to corporate governance, regional economic stimuli and distributive justice.