We estimate the employment and labour force participation effects resulting from the abolition of the marital allowance … - a 10 percent mandatory top-up in the Minimum Wage (MW) for married individuals - in Greece in November 2012. Using data … from the Greek LFS over the period 2008:Q1-2016:Q1 we do not find any differential change in the probability of employment …

The paper examines the effects of the age-differentiated decreases in the minimum wage which Greece implemented in 2012 … probit models and find that after the reform there was no statistically significant change in the differential employment …-sector employees of this group after the reform. Moreover, the reform had no significant differential impact on employment terminations …

Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly … by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …

and current account deficits, which have in turn driven Greece’s foreign indebtedness to alarming levels, necessitating … the current bailout by the EU/ECB/IMF. -- debt ; deficits ; political economy ; fiscal crisis ; Greece …

-born cohorts. -- famine ; health ; regression discontinuity ; Greece …

The Target liabilities of the GIPS countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain) amounted to314 billion euros in … destroyed the Bretton Woods System. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy have suffered from balance-of-payments deficits …

We assess the sustainability of the public finances of Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain (GIIPS), allowing for …

We describe the evolution of the power struggle in Greece among key economic and political stakeholders, who have tried …