Policy Papers Archive
A comprehensive and permanent repository of all research and policy papers published under the HPP initiative.
The 2019 Increase in the Greek Minimum Wage: Evidence on Wages, Employment, and Firm Reallocation
Authors: Efi Adamopoulou, Manolis Galenianos, Nicholas Giannakopoulos, Ioannis Laliotis
We study the labor market effects of the 11% increase in the Greek National Minimum Wage implemented in February 2019. The reform marked a major reversal of the labor market adjustments introduced during the Greek sovereign debt crisis, including the large reduction in the minimum wage enacted in 2012...
Public Education in Greece: What the Data Say
Authors: Sofoklis Goulas, Faidra Monachou
This paper provides a data-driven portrait of public education in Greece, documenting a series of stylized facts on learning trajectories, educational choices, university admissions, and student behavior. Drawing on newly linked administrative data that follow students across secondary education...
AI and the Labour Market in Greece
Authors: Evangelos V. Dioikitopoulos, Maria M. Mexi, Konstantinos Pouliakas, Stylianos Rousalis, Christianna Sintou
This paper provides the first causal estimates of the effects of artificial intelligence on labour market outcomes in Greece, exploiting the natural experiment created by the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022. Using large-scale supply- and demand-side data from the Greek labour market...