Safety nets in (the) crisis: The case of Greece in the 2010s

Matsaganis, Manos

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“…Naturally, this figure is substantially higher if as basis is taken the peak of the crisis.15 For an analysis of changes in social assistance in the years of the Economic Adjustment Programs seeMatsaganis (2020).…”

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Decomposing Poverty in Hard Times: Greece 2007-2016

Andriopoulou¹,

Kanavitsa²,

Τσακλόγλου³

2020

Revue d'Économie Du Développement

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The Greek economic crisis resulted in a decline in household disposable income by more than 40%. Even though all population groups lost income in absolute terms, some were substantially more severely hit by the crisis. The paper examines the effect of the crisis on the population shares, the mean incomes and the level of poverty of various population groups using SILC data for the period 2007-2016. The population is partitioned according to four criteria: socioeconomic group of the household head, presence of unemployed individuals in the household, age of the population member and household type. When "anchored" poverty lines and distribution-sensitive poverty indices are employed the level of poverty rises to incredibly high levels. When the poverty lines used are "relative", the poverty rate does not change substantially but when distribution-sensitive indices are used the increase in poverty is very substantial. The most interesting results are related to the changes in the structure of poverty. The crisis was associated with a very substantial increase in unemployment. Unemployment protection in Greece was inadequate while there was no "benefit of last resort". As a result, the relative position of households with unemployed members (and, especially, with unemployed heads) deteriorated sharply, while their contribution to aggregate poverty skyrocketed. Unlike what is often claimed in the Greek public discourse, the relative position of pensioner-headed households improved, although they also experienced a considerable decline in their living standards.

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Decomposing Poverty in Hard Times: Greece 2007-2016

Andriopoulou¹,

Kanavitsa²,

Τσακλόγλου³

2020

Revue d'Économie Du Développement

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“…Cooperation between different ministries proved likewise difficult. Furthermore, the failure to tie cash assistance with social services and activation programmes had far-reaching implications, such as raising the risk of granting assistance to households with higher, but unreported incomes (Matsaganis, 2020).…”

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“…The Greek case Context Although the first parliamentary proposal for a welfare mechanism similar to a GMI was submitted to the Greek Parliament in 1998, the establishment of a national GMI, more than a decade later, was part of the country's Memorandum of Understanding. After years of ambivalence, indifference and/or overt hostility against a GMI, the medium-term 2013-2016 3 fiscal strategy explicitly referred to the design and implementation of the scheme (Matsaganis, 2020). This shift should be viewed in the light of the severe implications of the financial crisis and the related austerity policies.…”

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The Greek vs. the Cypriot guaranteed minimum income schemes: an exploratory comparative analysis

Lalioti

Koutsampelas

2021

J. int. comp. soc. policy

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This exploratory paper utilises a comparative research approach to shed light upon the developmental trajectories of the Greek and Cypriot guaranteed minimum income (GMI) schemes. Our analysis indicates that, despite similarities (e.g. in the emergence of the two schemes, as part of the extensive reforms imposed during the financial crisis on the Greek and Cypriot welfare systems), there are also significant differences. These mainly relate to implementation and, ultimately, the “success” of the two schemes in attaining their declared goals. Moreover, we argue that the developmental paths followed by the Greek and Cypriot GMI schemes should be interpreted in the light of key variables (“functionalist,” “political” and “institutional”), often used to explain the establishment and further evolution of such schemes. Within this context, the relatively “superior” performance of the Cypriot GMI, compared with the Greek scheme, is largely attributed to factors such as government effectiveness and political stability.

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“…Las recomendaciones de las instituciones europeas durante el último decenio han insistido en ambos elementos (Comisión Europea, s. f.). Recomendaciones que, en países como Grecia, han adquirido la forma de imposiciones ante las dilaciones del gobierno griego en la creación de una renta mínima (Aguilar-Hendrickson y Arriba, 2020a;Jessoula y Natili, 2020;Matsaganis, 2020;Pereirinha, Branco, Pereira y Amaro, 2020).…”

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Entre recalibración y continuidad: el contexto del nacimiento del IMV

Durana

Hendrickson

2021

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España, a diferencia de otros países meridionales, recalibró desde los años 1980 su sistema de garantía de ingresos, conteniendo el nivel contributivo y creando un conjunto de programas asistenciales. A pesar de su significativo impacto, los límites e incoherencias de ese conjunto asistencial explican que, desde 2015, su reforma esté en la agenda política nacional. Aunque el conjunto existente tiene mayor impacto que sus equivalentes italiano o griego, su diseño está aún anclado en una concepción «fordista» que asocia empleo con seguridad económica. Este modelo se muestra insuficiente para hacer frente a las transformaciones de la estructura de los hogares, a las dificultades de acceso a la vivienda, pero sobre todo al crecimiento de formas precarias de participación en el empleo. El artículo analiza la trayectoria del conjunto de la garantía de ingresos en el que el nuevo Ingreso Mínimo Vital mejora apreciablemente la cobertura asistencial, pero deja sin resolver la adecuación del conjunto a las nuevas formas de empleo.

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Safety nets in (the) crisis: The case of Greece in the 2010s

Cited by 22 publications

References 20 publications

Decomposing Poverty in Hard Times: Greece 2007-2016

Decomposing Poverty in Hard Times: Greece 2007-2016

The Greek vs. the Cypriot guaranteed minimum income schemes: an exploratory comparative analysis

Entre recalibración y continuidad: el contexto del nacimiento del IMV

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