Social Policy Developments in Greece by Elias Mossialos & Maria Petmesidou

Author:Elias Mossialos & Maria Petmesidou [Mossialos, Elias & Petmesidou, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Public Policy, Social Policy
ISBN: 9780754643708
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-01-01T13:52:01+00:00

That productivity increases are unlikely in such a state of affairs should hardly come as a surprise. Indeed, Moschonas and Droucopoulos (1993, pp.116, 118), discovered that between 1963 and 1990, the productivity gap between large (presumably ‘rigid’) and small (invariably ‘flexible’) establishments widened by no less than 25 per cent, whilst the 1996 Community Innovation Survey (CIS) ranked Greek SMEs absolutely last in Europe in terms of their ‘in-house innovating’ (Greece being the only country in the EU with an average rate that was 20 per cent below the EU mean) (European Communities, 2001, p. 52). Naturally, the gap in terms of wages has also been widening. Whilst in 1963 the annual remuneration per employee in flexible SMEs was 75.9 per cent of its counterpart in large establishments, by 1990 it had fallen to 67.1 per cent. None of this helped Greece avoid the eruption of unemployment in the course of the 1990s. Like so much else in EES thinking, the promise of flexible SMEs is doubtful to say the least (but cf. Spanos et al., 2001).

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