Spanish Sociedades Laborales—Activating the Unemployed by Jens Lowitzsch Sophie Dunsch & Iraj Hashi

Author:Jens Lowitzsch, Sophie Dunsch & Iraj Hashi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

To assess the impact of the capitalisation of unemployment benefits as a tool for the creation of new SLs—as opposed to capitalisation used to join an existing SL —we had to revert to the survey data from Andalusia (FEANSAL 2012); according to these data, collected between 2010 and 2012 covering 154 SLs, 34.42% of the interviewed entrepreneurs confirm to have received monies from the capitalisation of the unemployment benefits as a lump sum to start the firm. Furthermore, estimates of the number of workers capitalising unemployment benefits in the context of setting up a new worker-owned company based on data from the Basque Country about the number of firms being coached by ASLE (see Table 5.​3) as well as interviews with ASLE experts confirm the proportion of about 33%.

With regard to age groups, Fig. 4.14 shows that the youngest age groups are significantly underrepresented, a result that is not surprising as the vast majority of them will not have been previously in employment—a prerequisite to make use of the capitalisation mechanism of unemployment benefits. The bulk of the decline is incurred in the 16–34 age group which again—given youth unemployment rates of up to 50% during the crisis —is no surprise.

Fig. 4.14Number of persons using their unemployment benefit to set up or join a SL in Spain according to age groups , 2006–2013.

Source: Own elaboration of data from SEPE

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