LSEE Conference on Social Cohesion in SEE
Social Entrepreneurship:
A Second Chance for Social Policies
Author:
Stefan Chichevaliev
Inspiration
Social entrepreneurship
• What is social entrepreneurship?
o What could social entrepreneurship do?
• What is a social entrepreneur?
o What could a social entrepreneur do?
The effects of
social entrepreneurship
• Provides a working integration of persons that are
"hard to employ“;
• Provides for the social inclusion of vulnerable
groups; and
• Serves to reduce costs in the state budget for social
protection.
• Social entrepreneurship contributes to achieving
strategic goals of the country: EU integration and
Sustainable Development Goals
Methodology
• Qualitative methodology
o Semi-structured interviews
• Focus groups
• To better understand the
o Challenges
• Needs
o Personal experiences
• Stances
• Target group
o marginalized groups in the economic life of the society
Second chance for leaving
nobody behind
Over
30%
living in poverty
More than
Almost
25%
unemployment
Over
43%
susceptible to the
risk of poverty or
social exclusion
48%
Youth
unemployment
Better investment of the
tax payers money
100 den
Tax
33 den
Social
27 den
Pension
1 den Health
services
4 den
Social
help/
welfare
1 den
Fostering
employment
Marginalized groups
Social
Inclusion
and
Employment
• Young
• Long-term
unemployed
• Welfare recipients
• People with low
education
• People with special
needs and/or
disability
Challenges
Small or limited
number of open
job positions and
a legion of
unemployed
Social Capital
Low qualification
structure of the
unemployed, lack
of working
experience and
skills
Mismatch
between the
supply and
demand on the
labour market
Existing of
informal
employment
Low mobility and
flexibility on the
labour market
Needs
Practical
Work
Training
Internship
Skills
demanded on
the labour
market
Motivation
Motivation
Training for
skills by
specific
employer
General skills
Fair Play
• Equal Employment Opportunity
o Fair access to employer benefits such as insurance,
disability accommodations, compensation, promotions
and job responsibilities for all employees
o Equal pay
o Equal possibilities
o Respect diversity
Eradicate discrimination on workplace
Recommendations
• Encouraging labour demand
• Targeting hiring subsidies to new hiring
• Reducing the tax on labour while ensuring fiscal
sustainability
• Promoting and supporting self employment, social
enterprises and business start-ups
• Transforming informal or undeclared work into regular
employment
• Boosting 'take home' pay
• Modernising wage-setting systems to align wages with
productivity developments
• Fostering job creation
Promoting and supporting
social enterprises
• Create jobs;
• Develop skills;
• Support business start-ups by unemployed and
people from vulnerable groups
• Targeted support for social entrepreneurs
• Creating opportunities for microfinancing;
• Give unemployed and vulnerable people an
opportunity to fully participate in society and the
economy.
Bibliography
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Thank you for your
attention