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Fostering the Self-Employment in Spain: An Evaluation of the Capitalisation of Unemployment Benefits Programme

In: Geographical Labor Market Imbalances. Recent Explanations and Cures

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  • Matías Mayor

    (University of Oviedo)

  • Begoña Cueto

    (University of Oviedo)

  • Patricia Suárez

    (University of Oviedo)

Abstract

Self-employment has become an important source of employment in the last decades. Moreover governments have developed labour market programmes in order to foster self-employment. The capitalisation of unemployment benefits is a Spanish programme that gives the unemployed people the possibility to receive the contributory unemployment benefits in a lump sum payment in order to set up a business. Our analysis supports the existence of spatial spillovers in regional labour markets; consequently, the modelmust include this spatial process explicitly. The results suggest that the magnitude of the direct effect is smaller but it is in accordance with the expected, since the possibility of capitalisation of unemployment benefits is not the main reason to move into the self-employment.

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  • Matías Mayor & Begoña Cueto & Patricia Suárez, 2015. "Fostering the Self-Employment in Spain: An Evaluation of the Capitalisation of Unemployment Benefits Programme," AIEL Series in Labour Economics, in: Chiara Mussida & Francesco Pastore (ed.), Geographical Labor Market Imbalances. Recent Explanations and Cures, edition 1, chapter 15, pages 335-352, AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro.
    • Handle: RePEc:ail:chapts:08-15
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    1. Begoña Cueto & Matías Mayor & Patricia Suárez, 2017. "Evaluation of the Spanish flat rate for young self-employed workers," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 49(4), pages 937-951, December.
    2. Cueto, Begoña & Patricia, Suárez, 2014. "A review of active and passive labour market policies in Spain," MPRA Paper 60648, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Self-employment; Active labour market policies; Evaluation;
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    JEL classification:

    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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