A dead end packed with unemployed graduates

On the one hand, there's a gulf between tertiary education and the job market. Of the 50,000 students who graduate from Greek universities each year, just 10,000 have the necessary skills to find related work immediately, according to a recent study. On the other hand, Greeks work more hours than anyone else in Europe, Eurostat has found. And as another report by Kathimerini noted, these data confirm the problematic production model applied in this country.

The arrhythmia in the labor market keeps coming back, and coming back stronger, as a subject of public discussion, sometimes even through seemingly unrelated subjects. Big personnel shortages, businesses that are unable to find enough workers to meet their needs and people with work (either as salaried employees or freelancers) aged 20 to 64 years old having to put in many more hours than their European peers - and, of...