The Dark Side of the Labour Market: Institutional Change, Economic Crisis and Undeclared Work in Greece during the Crisis

Voskeritsian, Horen; Kapotas, Panos; Kornelakis, Andreas; Veliziotis, Michail

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“…Undoubtedly, these marketization objectives underlie the ‘internal devaluation’ policy and have been politically laden and highly controversial. Indeed, the empirical evidence is at best inconclusive, as recent research has shown that the trajectory of the real value of the NMW in Greece was, in general, aligned with productivity increases (Voskeritsian et al, 2017), and that the impact of the NMW on employment has had no systematic (positive or negative) effects (Georgiadis et al, 2018).…”

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United we stand? Marketization, institutional change and employers’ associations in crisis

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Kornelakis

Kapotas

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Economic and Industrial Democracy

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The continuous process of marketization of employment relations in a variety of European countries has raised questions about the power of collective social actors and their legitimizing role in policy-making. The article examines the responses of employers’ associations to institutional changes towards marketization in the context of the Greek economic crisis. The analysis exposes the hidden fractures between and within the peak-level employers’ associations and unveils a variation in their strategic responses towards institutional changes. To explain this variation, the article advances a power-based explanation and argues that the institutional changes altered the associations’ interest representation and power resources, which, in turn, redefined their role and identities in the employment relations system.

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United we stand? Marketization, institutional change and employers’ associations in crisis

Voskeritsian

Kornelakis

Kapotas

et al. 2020

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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“…Amongst the latter, Kennedy (2018) finds that the rise of involuntary part-time and temporary employment represents a form of hidden unemployment, one that neither protects workers from in-work poverty nor from formal unemployment. In parallel, Voskeritsian et al (2019) highlight another role that underemployment plays: providing cover for bogus full-time employment within which the worker either is forced to provide unpaid overtime labour or in which s/he receives part of her/his wage informally. Lastly, Grekousis and Gialis (2019) note that underemployment has dire impacts upon productivity, furthering labour market deterioration.…”

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Inter-regional underemployment and the industrial reserve army: Precarity as a contemporary Greek drama

Herod

Gourzis²,

Gialis

2021

European Urban and Regional Studies

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We explore the 2008/2009 economic crisis in Greece and its impact upon employment precarity. Specifically, we focus upon changing regional patterns of waged part-timerism during three periods: the 2005–2008 pre-crisis period; the 2009–12 deep recession; and the 2013–2016 period of mild stabilization. Our analysis reveals important geographical and sectoral variations in the growth of this type of underemployment. In particular, we find that metropolitan regions have experienced the heaviest losses in full-time waged employment and a significant expansion of underemployment. Moreover, they have struggled to bounce back effectively during the period of stabilization. By way of contrast, island regions orientated towards tourism weathered the crisis to a much better degree, with many avoiding the acute flexibilization felt in more urbanized regions. Our study observes a “downwards convergence” of regional employment figures that is caused by Attica’s disproportionate crisis. This contrasts popular accounts that focus upon productive output. Moreover, by documenting distinct sectoral trajectories, such as the substantial flexibilization of tourism-related activities, we shed light upon the specifics of an industry often praised for its adaptiveness. Ultimately, through exploring the changing spatialities and sectoral specificities of growing flexibility during a period of recession and recovery, our study provides a geographically sensitive perspective on the emerging dynamics of the Greek reserve army of labour. In so doing, we further historical geographical materialist understandings of the capitalist crisis in Southern Europe.

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The Dark Side of the Labour Market: Institutional Change, Economic Crisis and Undeclared Work in Greece during the Crisis

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United we stand? Marketization, institutional change and employers’ associations in crisis

United we stand? Marketization, institutional change and employers’ associations in crisis

Inter-regional underemployment and the industrial reserve army: Precarity as a contemporary Greek drama

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