Labour mobility in Greek industry : inter and intra-generational trends

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Employers of migrant women domestic workers from Albania and Ukraine

The views of employers of migrant women domestic workers from Albania andUkraine who are employed either to care for elderly people or to assist with thedomestic chores some days per month or week are focused on: how to locate theworkforce, the importance of the nationality of these domestic workers for theemployers, their work content and employment conditions, the relationship betweenemployers and employees and on the employers’ evaluation for the presence ofmigrants on the Greek labour market

Oil prices, tourism income and economic growth: A structural VAR approach for European Mediterranean countries

In this study, a Structural VAR model is employed to investigate the relationship among oil price shocks, tourism variables and economic indicators in four European Mediterranean countries. In contrast with the current tourism literature, we distinguish between three oil price shocks, namely, supply-side, aggregate demand and oil specific demand shocks. Overall, our results indicate that oil specific demand shocks contemporaneously affect inflation and the tourism sector equity index, whereas these shocks do not seem to have any lagged effects. By contrast, aggregate demand oil price shocks exercise a lagged effect, either directly or indirectly, to tourism generated income and economic growth. The paper does not provide any evidence that supply-side shocks trigger any responses from the remaining variables. Results are important for tourism agents and policy makers, should they need to create hedging strategies against future oil price movements or plan for economic policy developments