Open AccessIntegration social enterprises as a tool of employment policy
Author(s) -
Ondřej Kročil,
Miroslav Dopita,
R. Pospíšil
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ekonomski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.134
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1848-9494
pISSN - 0424-7558
DOI - 10.32910/ep.70.3.10
Subject(s) - czech , unemployment , context (archaeology) , labour economics , social integration , social policy , legislature , business , social protection , active labour market policies , state (computer science) , economics , economic growth , market economy , political science , paleontology , philosophy , linguistics , algorithm , computer science , law , biology
Employment policy aspart of the social policy of the state has two basic objectives - achievingfull employment and protection against unemployment. There are many groups ofpeople who are highly vulnerable to unemployment on the labour market. Forthese people, the existence of so-called integration social enterprises, whichcan offer them a job opportunity, can be particularly useful. If integrationsocial enterprises are supported by the state, we can talk about an activeemployment policy. Objective of this research is to determine representation ofintegration social enterprises in a selected region of the Czech Republic andto assess their potential in the context of state employment policy. Althoughlegislative conditions for social enterprises have not yet been developed inthe Czech Republic, the research shows that social enterprises have thepotential to become a useful tool of active employment policy. It was foundthat the target group of analysed social enterprises are mainly people withdisabilities, who may have a problem with finding a job under currentcircumstances in the labour market of the Czech Republic. Without thecontribution of analysed social enterprises, the excess of supply over demandfor labour of people with disabilities would increase an additional 7.37 percent.