Measures to promote entrepreneurship and employment through Social Economy Entities

Abstract

Art. 129.2 of Spanish Constitution entrusts public powers promoting, by means of appropriate legislation, cooperative societies and other forms of association. To this end, in the understanding that Social Economy entities are a key to energize their environment economic development and to create stable and quality jobs, state and regional legislators have been supporting the incorporation of worker-members and employees in these entities, through grants, benefits in Social Security contributions, capitalization of contributory unemployment benefit and capitalization of economic allowance for cessation of activity of self-employed persons, among other measures.

This study analyzes the main groups of such measures, envisaged by Act 5/2011 on Social Economy and Act 20/2007 on Autonomous Work Statute (as amended by Act 31/2015 for promoting autonomous work and Social Economy), placing special emphasis on those collective prioritized by them.