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The Employment and Entrepreneurship Among Young People are a Priority in the Government of Rajoy and Cospedal

100 measures of the Government of Spain will serve to create jobs from the point of view of innovation among young people across the country. This strategy will benefit more than a million young people and has a budget of nearly 3,500 million euros.

Spain, March 12, 2013 - The Minister of Employment and Economy of Castilla-La Mancha, Carmen Home, said that "the Entrepreneurship and Employment Strategy Joven2013-2016 demonstrates the commitment of the governments of Rajoy and Cospedal with all those who are called to lead change in the production model across the country from an innovative point of view. "

After the meeting at the Moncloa Palace with the Prime Minister of Spain, Mariano Rajoy, Minister for Employment, Fatima Banez and leaders of social, Casero said that "it is essential that we are all aligned in the same strategy for economic recovery and job creation, especially in the group of young people. "

The actions are intended to encourage entrepreneurship among the youth and includes actions to improve their employability through training or development of new economic incentives.

These measures will affect more than a million young people and have a budget of 3,485 million euros, of which 32 percent is funded by the European Social Fund. Of the total, 40 per cent will go to stimulate hiring, 38 percent of self-employment and entrepreneurship measures and 22 percent for training and improving intermediation.

Home has reported that in training and employability assistance will be implemented to improve the training of young people who left school at an early age to enter the labor market and job opportunities are now not by their skill level. Also bet on the recruitment training commitment to facilitate access to the labor market.
In this regard, Home has expressed his satisfaction that "some of these measures are already included in our Action Plan on Youth Employment." Among others, he referred to the "dual importance of training to ensure that our young people can do part of their training in Germany while the made compatible with a job."

In terms of entrepreneurship, starts from now the "flat rate" for young self, the compatibility of the unemployment benefit and high in the Special Scheme for Self, facilities to capitalize on unemployment, improve the financing or ability to resume the collection of unemployment benefits after an activity by account, own among other actions.

The Minister of Employment and Economy of Castilla-La Mancha also assessed the sensitivity shown by the Government of Spain to implement "incentives for hiring." This entails incentives for part-time employment with training links, the delisting by the recruitment of young or developing training contracts.

Finally, he referred to the importance of betting on entrepreneurship from the point of view of innovation, facilitating access to credit, advice for entrepreneurs from the beginning of an idea to its consolidation in the market and a commitment to training to increase employability

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