Degrees of precariousness: The problematic transition into the labour market of Greek higher education graduates

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Themelis, Spyros (2017) Degrees of precariousness: The problematic transition into the labour market of Greek higher education graduates. Forum Sociológico, 31. pp. 53-62. ISSN 0872-8380

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Abstract

This paper discusses the transition into the labour market among higher education graduates from 2000 to date. It identifies a number of trends. First, this transition is protracted and not completed for the majority of Greek graduates until their thirties. Second, the labour market is fragmented along education level, place of living (urban or non-urban), gender, age and ethnic lines. Third, higher education does not seem to play a socially integrative role, as it does not shield against unemployment, emigration and precariousness. Fourth, the economic crisis has exacerbated enduring problems integral to the labour market and its weak connections with higher education. The multiple and overlapping problems underlying the transition from higher education to the labour market is at the crux of the economic and political problems Greece is facing and they point to a ticking bomb at the foundations of the Greek society.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	labour market,greece,higher education,precarity,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth,sdg 10 - reduced inequalities ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Research in Higher Education and Society
Related URLs:	https://journals.openedition.org/sociolo...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	28 Mar 2018 14:30
Last Modified:	12 May 2022 11:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66637
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