Comparing the Probability of Unemployment in Southern Greece Vis-À-Vis the Entire Country

• Authors: Stavros Rodokanakis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The basic aim of this paper is to investigate the impact that educational level of individuals and participation in training programmes (apprenticeship, intra-firm training, continuing vocational training, popular training) have on their job prospects in Southern Greece (namely the regions of Southern Aegean and Crete) during the implementation of the first Community Support Framework (1989-1993). We also research the differences between the two regions under study and the entire country. We try to see whether the educational level itself and participation in training programmes increased the chances of finding a job. More specifically, we research what are the social and demographic characteristics that increase the chances of someone in the examined population finding a job, how those chances change (if they do) after the introduction of training courses and, also, whether University graduates, in contrast to most of the rest of the EU member states, face greater difficulties in finding a job than non-University graduates, as a series of studies for Greece conclude. To the author's knowledge, this is the first attempt to analyse individual anonymised records (micro-data) from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for both employed and unemployed in those two regions at NUTS 2 level.

Keywords

EN

spatial econometrics; labour economics policies; human capital; skills; regional; urban and rural analyses

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 17-43

Dates

published

2009-01-01

online

2009-12-24

Contributors

author

Stavros Rodokanakis

• University of Bath, England

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DOI

10.2478/v10089-009-0002-5