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Papers by Antigone Lyberaki

The Journal of Modern Hellenism, 1995

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 1988

Grecia dio inicio a la crisis de la Eurozona en 2009 y se ha convertido en su victima mas famosa.... more Grecia dio inicio a la crisis de la Eurozona en 2009 y se ha convertido en su victima mas famosa. Desde 2009, una cuarta parte de su produccion se ha perdido y la tasa de desempleo se ha disparado hasta el 28%. El intento de rescatar a Grecia es una de las mas costosas iniciativas cooperativas internacionales de la historia reciente. Ya ha durado cinco anos, parece que se extendera hasta 2018, y ha requerido tres programas de rescate sucesivos...

KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Immigration and integration in northern versus s... more KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Immigration and integration in northern versus southern Europe (2004). Pagina-navigatie: Main. ...

Vaccine hesitancy, which potentially leads to refusal or delayed acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines,... more Vaccine hesitancy, which potentially leads to refusal or delayed acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines, is considered a key driver for the increasing death toll from the pandemic in the E.U.. European Commission and several member states governments are either planning or have already directly or indirectly announced mandatory vaccination for individuals aged over 60, the group repeatedly proved to be the most vulnerable. In this paper, an assessment of this strategy benefits is attempted. This is done by examining the reduction of Standard Expected Years of Life Lost (SEYLL) per person of the EU population over 60 as a function of their vaccination percentage. Publicly available data and some first results of the second iteration of the SHARE COVID-19 survey conducted during the summer of 2021 on acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines are used as input.

LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, 2018

This paper examines Long Term Care (LTC) in Greece over the crisis. It does so through examining ... more This paper examines Long Term Care (LTC) in Greece over the crisis. It does so through examining micro data from the 2007 and 2015 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement and Europe (SHARE. The crisis was exceptionally deep and involved retrenchments in public welfare, superimposed on a familial LTC system. Hence, the 'austerity narrative', expects cutbacks to have led to deteriorating outcomes and to rising informal provision. The empirical investigation casts doubt on these expectations: First, LTC needs did not rise, despite a deterioration in health. Second, 'care gaps'people declaring need who receive no care-shrank, despite austerity. Third, it was (paid) professional care, rather than informal care which rose, despite the familial LTC system. Fourth, care in the last year of life is a further drain on family finances. The paper concludes with thoughts on whether expecting the family to keep delivering is a sustainable LTC medium term policy in the face of ageing.

South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, 2015

This study fleshes out the picture of poverty and the poor in Greece, present¬ing findings with i... more This study fleshes out the picture of poverty and the poor in Greece, present¬ing findings with important implications for the Greek social inclusion strategy. Assessing poverty using both monetary and non-monetary dimensions of well¬being it becomes evident that, for certain population groups, poverty risk is as¬sociated with deprivation risk (multidimensional nature of poverty). Focusing on the age dimension, the stochastic dominance analysis indicates that old age in¬come poverty in Greece appears to be remarkably robust and is not simply due to the choice of poverty lines. Moreover, what is at work statistically is that old age income has an effective ‘floor’ which is constraining inequality among the poor. Such a floor is not evident in the case of the younger group whose distribution of income below the poverty line is much more dispersed. These findings support the argument that much of the effect of the old age poverty alleviation policies over the ten last years in Greece i...

The Greek economic crisis is a crisis of production. Its key actor is a unique feature of the eco... more The Greek economic crisis is a crisis of production. Its key actor is a unique feature of the economy, the Greek family firm. Seen through that prism, the crisis is simply another episode in the story of how small firms tried to fit into the world economy as that was becoming increasingly globalized.

Advances in Life Course Research, 2013

in Athens. She was a Member of Parliament for To Potami, a party of the liberal centre in 2015. S... more in Athens. She was a Member of Parliament for To Potami, a party of the liberal centre in 2015. She has a PhD in Economics on Greek small and medium enterprises and an MPhil in Development Studies from IDS based at the University of Sussex. She has been a visiting professor in New York (CUNY) and Paris (EHESS). She was a Visiting Professor at the LSE and a Visiting Fellow at IDS at Sussex in 2016. Her research interests are SMEs, migration, ageing and gender. She has served as board member of ActionAid Hellas (2004-14), and Solidarity Now (2014-), an NGO active in refugee relief.

This paper is about social capital and its measurement in contemporary Greece. It is mainly about... more This paper is about social capital and its measurement in contemporary Greece. It is mainly about networks but also about attitudes, values and behaviour. It attempts to address the measurement challenge by distinguishing (and subsequently examining) between social capital indicators as such (networks etc), indicators focusing on the

ocial solidarity and cohesion are often extolled and frequently theorized. Especially in times of... more ocial solidarity and cohesion are often extolled and frequently theorized. Especially in times of hardship the mechanisms of social solidarity by providing help where that is needed comprise the social safety net. Much of the literature comparing and contrasting the European and US experiences of growth models lay stress on the key importance of European Social safety nets as a factor differentiating Europe and explaining some of the salient differences.1 Similarly, within Europe, important streams of literature concern themselves with providing typologies of Welfare states and systems. 2 S To complement this theoretical difference it is important to see the mobilization of social reserves in action as applied to individuals. To examine, in other words, concrete cases where social support systems are called to serve an apparent and indisputable need. This paper examines one particular class of such events, where a clear instance of need arises, in order to discern what responses are...

<p>This chapter describes the regulatory framework in Greece at the time of the crisis and ... more <p>This chapter describes the regulatory framework in Greece at the time of the crisis and the way it has evolved since. It then reviews the theoretical and empirical literature relating to labor market regulation as a way to understand how the institutions in Greece may have affected the performance of the economy. Finally, it offers an alternative vision of a deregulated labor market supported by a robust system of welfare and social insurance, which achieves better protection and is more conducive to entrepreneurship.</p>

LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, 2018

This paper examines Long Term Care (LTC) in Greece over the crisis. It does so through examining ... more This paper examines Long Term Care (LTC) in Greece over the crisis. It does so through examining micro data from the 2007 and 2015 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement and Europe (SHARE. The crisis was exceptionally deep and involved retrenchments in public welfare, superimposed on a familial LTC system. Hence, the ‘austerity narrative’, expects cutbacks to have led to deteriorating outcomes and to rising informal provision. The empirical investigation casts doubt on these expectations: First, LTC needs did not rise, despite a deterioration in health. Second, ‘care gaps’ – people declaring need who receive no care – shrank, despite austerity. Third, it was (paid) professional care, rather than informal care which rose, despite the familial LTC system. Fourth, care in the last year of life is a further drain on family finances. The paper concludes with thoughts on whether expecting the family to keep delivering is a sustainable LTC medium term policy in the face of ag...

LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, 2010

Reforms promoting gender equality in Greece are held by many to be one of the few real success st... more Reforms promoting gender equality in Greece are held by many to be one of the few real success stories of the post-1974 period. Indeed, there has been considerable activity in changes in employment, family, social insurance and other legislation all centered around the constitutional provision on equal treatment which came into force in 1983. This activism, however, was mainly about statutory changes and lacked a feminist analysis of women’s real position in the Greek economy and society. The main argument of the paper is that gender equality-promoting policies, laws and measures - ‘Legalistic Formalism’- failed because they ignored the dual nature of the labour market and the economics of the family. By focusing on legal form and ignoring reality it allowed the reform momentum to be hijacked.

The landscape in the second half of the twentieth century was characterized in Europe by two divi... more The landscape in the second half of the twentieth century was characterized in Europe by two divides. One was that between insiders and outsiders in the labor market, often associated with membership of the public sector, which enjoyed, in most places a privileged status relative to the rest of the labor market. The other divide was built around gender – the male breadwinner model. The pension system, however, is supposed to operate in an equalizing direction, ironing out employment-based inequities. This paper tests whether and to what extent inequalities persist in retirement. It does so by direct comparisons of privileged groups relative to less privileged groups of a large international sample survey of individuals aged 50+, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), using the fifth wave conducted in 2013. The comparison proceeds by means of odds ratios applied to dimensions of outcomes related to well-being: life satisfaction; better health; chances of a bet...

The Journal of Modern Hellenism, 1995

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 1988

Grecia dio inicio a la crisis de la Eurozona en 2009 y se ha convertido en su victima mas famosa.... more Grecia dio inicio a la crisis de la Eurozona en 2009 y se ha convertido en su victima mas famosa. Desde 2009, una cuarta parte de su produccion se ha perdido y la tasa de desempleo se ha disparado hasta el 28%. El intento de rescatar a Grecia es una de las mas costosas iniciativas cooperativas internacionales de la historia reciente. Ya ha durado cinco anos, parece que se extendera hasta 2018, y ha requerido tres programas de rescate sucesivos...

KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Immigration and integration in northern versus s... more KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication Immigration and integration in northern versus southern Europe (2004). Pagina-navigatie: Main. ...

Vaccine hesitancy, which potentially leads to refusal or delayed acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines,... more Vaccine hesitancy, which potentially leads to refusal or delayed acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines, is considered a key driver for the increasing death toll from the pandemic in the E.U.. European Commission and several member states governments are either planning or have already directly or indirectly announced mandatory vaccination for individuals aged over 60, the group repeatedly proved to be the most vulnerable. In this paper, an assessment of this strategy benefits is attempted. This is done by examining the reduction of Standard Expected Years of Life Lost (SEYLL) per person of the EU population over 60 as a function of their vaccination percentage. Publicly available data and some first results of the second iteration of the SHARE COVID-19 survey conducted during the summer of 2021 on acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines are used as input.

LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, 2018

This paper examines Long Term Care (LTC) in Greece over the crisis. It does so through examining ... more This paper examines Long Term Care (LTC) in Greece over the crisis. It does so through examining micro data from the 2007 and 2015 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement and Europe (SHARE. The crisis was exceptionally deep and involved retrenchments in public welfare, superimposed on a familial LTC system. Hence, the 'austerity narrative', expects cutbacks to have led to deteriorating outcomes and to rising informal provision. The empirical investigation casts doubt on these expectations: First, LTC needs did not rise, despite a deterioration in health. Second, 'care gaps'people declaring need who receive no care-shrank, despite austerity. Third, it was (paid) professional care, rather than informal care which rose, despite the familial LTC system. Fourth, care in the last year of life is a further drain on family finances. The paper concludes with thoughts on whether expecting the family to keep delivering is a sustainable LTC medium term policy in the face of ageing.

South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, 2015

This study fleshes out the picture of poverty and the poor in Greece, present¬ing findings with i... more This study fleshes out the picture of poverty and the poor in Greece, present¬ing findings with important implications for the Greek social inclusion strategy. Assessing poverty using both monetary and non-monetary dimensions of well¬being it becomes evident that, for certain population groups, poverty risk is as¬sociated with deprivation risk (multidimensional nature of poverty). Focusing on the age dimension, the stochastic dominance analysis indicates that old age in¬come poverty in Greece appears to be remarkably robust and is not simply due to the choice of poverty lines. Moreover, what is at work statistically is that old age income has an effective ‘floor’ which is constraining inequality among the poor. Such a floor is not evident in the case of the younger group whose distribution of income below the poverty line is much more dispersed. These findings support the argument that much of the effect of the old age poverty alleviation policies over the ten last years in Greece i...

The Greek economic crisis is a crisis of production. Its key actor is a unique feature of the eco... more The Greek economic crisis is a crisis of production. Its key actor is a unique feature of the economy, the Greek family firm. Seen through that prism, the crisis is simply another episode in the story of how small firms tried to fit into the world economy as that was becoming increasingly globalized.

Advances in Life Course Research, 2013

in Athens. She was a Member of Parliament for To Potami, a party of the liberal centre in 2015. S... more in Athens. She was a Member of Parliament for To Potami, a party of the liberal centre in 2015. She has a PhD in Economics on Greek small and medium enterprises and an MPhil in Development Studies from IDS based at the University of Sussex. She has been a visiting professor in New York (CUNY) and Paris (EHESS). She was a Visiting Professor at the LSE and a Visiting Fellow at IDS at Sussex in 2016. Her research interests are SMEs, migration, ageing and gender. She has served as board member of ActionAid Hellas (2004-14), and Solidarity Now (2014-), an NGO active in refugee relief.

This paper is about social capital and its measurement in contemporary Greece. It is mainly about... more This paper is about social capital and its measurement in contemporary Greece. It is mainly about networks but also about attitudes, values and behaviour. It attempts to address the measurement challenge by distinguishing (and subsequently examining) between social capital indicators as such (networks etc), indicators focusing on the

ocial solidarity and cohesion are often extolled and frequently theorized. Especially in times of... more ocial solidarity and cohesion are often extolled and frequently theorized. Especially in times of hardship the mechanisms of social solidarity by providing help where that is needed comprise the social safety net. Much of the literature comparing and contrasting the European and US experiences of growth models lay stress on the key importance of European Social safety nets as a factor differentiating Europe and explaining some of the salient differences.1 Similarly, within Europe, important streams of literature concern themselves with providing typologies of Welfare states and systems. 2 S To complement this theoretical difference it is important to see the mobilization of social reserves in action as applied to individuals. To examine, in other words, concrete cases where social support systems are called to serve an apparent and indisputable need. This paper examines one particular class of such events, where a clear instance of need arises, in order to discern what responses are...

<p>This chapter describes the regulatory framework in Greece at the time of the crisis and ... more <p>This chapter describes the regulatory framework in Greece at the time of the crisis and the way it has evolved since. It then reviews the theoretical and empirical literature relating to labor market regulation as a way to understand how the institutions in Greece may have affected the performance of the economy. Finally, it offers an alternative vision of a deregulated labor market supported by a robust system of welfare and social insurance, which achieves better protection and is more conducive to entrepreneurship.</p>

LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, 2018

This paper examines Long Term Care (LTC) in Greece over the crisis. It does so through examining ... more This paper examines Long Term Care (LTC) in Greece over the crisis. It does so through examining micro data from the 2007 and 2015 waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement and Europe (SHARE. The crisis was exceptionally deep and involved retrenchments in public welfare, superimposed on a familial LTC system. Hence, the ‘austerity narrative’, expects cutbacks to have led to deteriorating outcomes and to rising informal provision. The empirical investigation casts doubt on these expectations: First, LTC needs did not rise, despite a deterioration in health. Second, ‘care gaps’ – people declaring need who receive no care – shrank, despite austerity. Third, it was (paid) professional care, rather than informal care which rose, despite the familial LTC system. Fourth, care in the last year of life is a further drain on family finances. The paper concludes with thoughts on whether expecting the family to keep delivering is a sustainable LTC medium term policy in the face of ag...

LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, 2010

Reforms promoting gender equality in Greece are held by many to be one of the few real success st... more Reforms promoting gender equality in Greece are held by many to be one of the few real success stories of the post-1974 period. Indeed, there has been considerable activity in changes in employment, family, social insurance and other legislation all centered around the constitutional provision on equal treatment which came into force in 1983. This activism, however, was mainly about statutory changes and lacked a feminist analysis of women’s real position in the Greek economy and society. The main argument of the paper is that gender equality-promoting policies, laws and measures - ‘Legalistic Formalism’- failed because they ignored the dual nature of the labour market and the economics of the family. By focusing on legal form and ignoring reality it allowed the reform momentum to be hijacked.

The landscape in the second half of the twentieth century was characterized in Europe by two divi... more The landscape in the second half of the twentieth century was characterized in Europe by two divides. One was that between insiders and outsiders in the labor market, often associated with membership of the public sector, which enjoyed, in most places a privileged status relative to the rest of the labor market. The other divide was built around gender – the male breadwinner model. The pension system, however, is supposed to operate in an equalizing direction, ironing out employment-based inequities. This paper tests whether and to what extent inequalities persist in retirement. It does so by direct comparisons of privileged groups relative to less privileged groups of a large international sample survey of individuals aged 50+, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), using the fifth wave conducted in 2013. The comparison proceeds by means of odds ratios applied to dimensions of outcomes related to well-being: life satisfaction; better health; chances of a bet...