Thursday, January 19, 2012
[IWS] EMCC: Public measures to support self-employment and job creation in one-person and micro enterprises [10 January 2012]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin Foundation)
European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC)
COMPARATIVE STUDY
Public measures to support self-employment and job creation in one-person and micro enterprises [10 January 2012]
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/studies/tn1108034s/index.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/studies/tn1108034s/tn1108034s.htm
or
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/docs/erm/tn1108034s/tn1108034s.pdf
[full-text, 45 pages]
Self-employment and job creation is a key policy area in Europe and is considered to be an important element in fostering economic growth and employment. The financial and economic crisis has had a negative impact on self-employment andconsequently policy focus has been directed at fostering job creation in this area. The aim of this study, based on research carried out by national correspondents across the European Union, is to identify what measures of support are available for those who want to create one-person and micro enterprises. The study finds that policies to aid entrepreneurship and thus help create jobsalready existed before the economic and financial crisis and have received only slightly more focus due to the crisis. In general, instruments to aid self-employment are not new, but have been given higher priority because of the crisis.
The study was compiled on the basis of individual national reports submitted by the ERM correspondents. The text of each of these national reports is available below. The reports have not been edited or approved by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. The national reports were drawn up in response to a questionnaire and should be read in conjunction with it.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Effects of the financial and economic crisis on self-employment
Entrepreneurship and job creation – policy perspective
Comparative analysis of measures initiated since 2008
Examples of good practice
Commentary
Bibliography
Annex 1:List of identifiedinstrumentsfrom 2008 onwards(not crisisrelated)
Annex 2: List of crisis instrumentsidentified
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