https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:51:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/investing-in-leaving-the-greek-case-of-international-migration-of-professionals/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:27 +0000 http://arc.local/items/investing-in-leaving-the-greek-case-of-international-migration-of-professionals/ Continued]]> In the last twenty years, the ‘international migration of professionals’ from Greece has increased. This paper is based on an extensive survey of Greek professionals who work or have worked in another country. It is the first ever research on the topic in Greece and the first one in the international literature to include participants who are currently abroad or have repatriated. The aim of the paper is threefold. First, it presents the main characteristics of this phenomenon. Second, to explain why Greece, alongside other peripheral countries, suffers from migration of its professionals: in contrast to a dominant view insisting on an allegedly abundant supply of highly skilled labour, it is argued that the phenomenon is primarily due to their low demand in the Greek labour market. Third, to argue that such migration can have positive implications for a country, not only when these people return but also when they stay abroad.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/greece-education-and-brain-drain-in-times-of-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:21 +0000 http://arc.local/items/greece-education-and-brain-drain-in-times-of-crisis/ Continued]]> Brain drain is a phenomenon that Greece has experienced since late 1950, which hascontinued in subsequent decades and intensified over the 1990s. Although there was, in the firstdecade of the twenty-first century, a political and economic situation more stable than in the past, the unprecedented economic crisis that Greece is going through has caused, and willcontinue to cause, the increase in brain drain due to poor employment opportunities and strongausterity measures taken by past governments, which depress the level of living standards. Ifthis massive human capital flight increases, which is very likely, it would surely worsen thesituation as Greece would continue to suffer depression effects on its economy and to lose precisely the resources it needs for economic recovery.This article highlights some causes determining the brain drain in Greece, also in the light ofsome scientific surveys that analyse this phenomenon. Moreover, it tries to provide keys toending the crisis and to economic recovery, starting from education and implementation ofmajor reforms aimed at overcoming problems that have long plagued the Hellenic educationsystem and that can enhance its quality, while maintaining commitments to equity and social justice.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-mutually-reinforcing-relation-between-international-migration-of-highly-educated-labour-force-and-economic-crisis-the-case-of-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:19 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-mutually-reinforcing-relation-between-international-migration-of-highly-educated-labour-force-and-economic-crisis-the-case-of-greece/ Continued]]> Although several studies aim at analysing the causes and impacts of the current economic crisis, especially involving the case of Greece, the role that highly educated population holds has not received wider attention. Based on an examination of both secondary data on the Greek economy/labour market and primary data collected by a survey that included 1821 graduates, this paper shows that underutilization of highly educated population harmed the competitiveness of the Greek economy, a factor which has significantly contributed to the creation of the current debt crisis and fostered the migration of graduates.

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