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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255037103321

Autore

Lowitzsch Jens

Titolo

Spanish Sociedades Laborales—Activating the Unemployed : A Potential New EU Active Labour Market Policy Instrument / / by Jens Lowitzsch, Sophie Dunsch, Iraj Hashi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-54870-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXII, 129 p. 27 illus.)

Disciplina

331

Soggetti

Labor economics

Industrial organization

Europe—Economic conditions

Labor Economics

Industrial Organization

European Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .