Abstract During the period from 2009-2015, Greece experienced one of the longest and
deepest recessions that any western economy endured in the 20th century; its real GDP fell …

Over time, Greece's public policy has created an unequal and ineffective social security
system. Until the Great Recession, the social insurance system was the main target of …

The chapter delves into the developmental trajectories of the Greek social protection system
over the last two decades. It mostly emphasises the post-crisis period in which rapid and …

This chapter examines the Greek social protection system by focusing on the dismantling
effects of the economic crisis and the neo-liberal austerity measures. Despite sound …

This paper deals with the question of how the social safety net in Greece responded to, and
was transformed by, the social emergency of the 2010s. The outbreak of the Eurozone crisis …

The current Greek crisis started off in 2009 as a fiscal crisis, soon turned into a sovereign
debt crisis, then mutated into a full-blown recession, unprecedented in depth and duration …

This chapter discusses the mam features of the Greek model of social welfare in relationship
to the trends of social protection expenditure and examines its crisis characteristics. Greece …

The paper examines the relationship between the severe economic crisis facing Greece and
the country's social protection system, arguing that this relationship is ambivalent. On one …

The development of sound social solidarity trajectories for the elderly at high risk of poverty
constitutes a key challenge for the rudimentary Greek Welfare State in the context of the …

This paper examines the delayed development of the welfare state in Greece and its
restructuring since the early 1990s. The emphasis is on factors, such as the rapid shift from …