01625cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF007371 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451951714 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Demekas, Dimitri. Unemployment in Greece : A Survey of the Issues / Dimitri Demekas, Zenon Kontolemis. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1996. 1 online resource (72 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The Greek unemployment rate rose from 2 percent in the 1960s to 9-10 percent in the 1990s. This reflected the increase in female participation rates, the slowdown in growth, the restructuring of production, and the increased mismatch between jobs and job seekers. But the most crucial factor was the persistence of real wage aspirations. The paper develops and tests a model that attributes this to the rapid expansion in the number of easy, life-time government jobs and the increase in the public/private wage differential during the 1980s. Mode of access: Internet Kontolemis, Zenon. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1996/091 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1996/091/001.1996.issue-091-en.xml IMF e-Library