Vocational training in Greece: Evaluation at Micro, Meso and Macro level
Stavros Rodokanakis & Vasileios Vlachos
What the paper says
The basic aim of this paper is to study the impact that vocational training programmes had on the labour market of semi-peripheral EU countries, using Greece as a case study during the period 1988-2000. The study moves beyond the econometric analysis of Labour Force Survey micro-level data, and embeds the empirical findings within the institutional/organizational environment of Greek vocational training (meso-level) and the broader political economy of Greece and its position in the EU political economy (macro-level) to provide a comprehensive explanation of what empirically is identified as the minimal impact of these policies. To this end, a comprehensive analysis is undertaken in an attempt to link all three levels (micro, meso, macro). To the best of our knowledge, such an approach on training evaluation has not been undertaken for Greece, to date, or for that matter, any other EU member state. The results of this research challenge the usefulness of the active labour market policies (ALMPs) alone. This does not mean that training and ALMPs are not needed in Greece, but they can only function effectively in the presence of a suitable institutional framework, which has yet to become a reality.
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.00 × 0.4 = 0.00 |
| M · momentum | 0.20 × 0.15 = 0.03 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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