Regional patterns of employability in the Greek Labour market

Tsampra, Maria and Bouranta, Nancy and Gkerats, Reveka (2017): Regional patterns of employability in the Greek Labour market.

Abstract

Massive unemployment and underemployment has been the major implication of 2008-crisis in Europe and particularly in the most vulnerable economies, as Greece. The shock resulted to decreased job-vacancy rates and increased job-seeker rates all over Europe. In a most recent study we focus on un/underemployment to particularly explore the post-crisis demand and supply discrepancy of the Greek labour market. Seeking to provide a coherent analysis of employability patterns across regional labour markets in Greece, we analyze regional-level data (employment flows, industrial specialization and labour market specificities) and individual-level data (demographic factors, qualifications and personal attitudes). We argue that regional un/underemployment is largely attributed to the mismatch between low-skill job vacancies and job-seekers’ high qualifications.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Employability, labour market mismatch, regional diversity
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity

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