Social Policy Developments in Greece
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Social policy developments in Greece
1. Public welfare - Greece 2. Greece - Social policy 3. Greece
- Social conditions - 1974-
I. Petmesidou, Maria II. Mossialos, Elias
361.6109495
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005931413
ISBN 9780754643708 (hbk)
Contents
Maria Petmesidou and Elias Mossialos
Maria Petmesidou
Dionissis N. Gravaris
Dimitris Venieris
Christos Papatheodorou
Panos Tsakloglou and Theodoros Mitrakos
Manos Matsaganis
Kevin Featherstone and Platon Tinios
Seraphim Seferiades
Theodoros Papadopoulos
Maria Karamessini
Konstantina Davaki
Konstantina Davaki and Elias Mossialos
Maria Petmesidou
Jennifer Cavounidis
Iordanis Psimmenos
Peter Taylor-Gooby
Guide
ADEDY | Supreme Administration of Greek Civil Servants Trade Unions |
AEKA | Renewal and Modernisation Movement of the Left, left-of-centre political party |
CSF | Community Support Framework |
DEH | Public Electricity Company |
EC | European Commission |
EIN | National Youth Foundation |
EIYAPOE | National Foundation for the Reception and Resettlement of Ethnic-Greek Repatriates |
EKAS | Social Solidarity Benefit, an income-tested pension supplement |
EKEPIS | National Accreditation Centre of Vocational Training Structures and Accompanying Services |
EKKE | Greek National Centre for Social Research |
EOKF | National Organisation for Social Care |
EOP | National Welfare Organisation |
ESEE | National Confederation of Greek Trade Enterprises |
EU | European Union |
GSEBEE | General Confederation of Greek Small Enterprises (in trade, manufacturing and services) |
GSEE | General Confederation of Greek Labour |
IKA | The Social Insurance Organisation, insurance fund covering the majority of private sector employees |
IMF | International Monetary Fund |
INE | Institute of Labour, the trade unions (GSEE) research foundation |
KAPI | Open Care Centre for the Elderly |
KEFO | Centre for Family Care |
KEK | Vocational Training Centre |
KEPE | Centre for Planning and Economic Research |
KETHEA | Therapy Centre for Addicted Individuals |
KETHI | Research Centre for Gender Equality |
KPA | Employment Promotion Centre |
LAEK | Special Fund for Employment and Vocational Training (financed by employer and employee contributions and administered by OAED) |
NAT | The Social Insurance Fund for Merchant Navy Personnel |
ND | New Democracy, conservative political party |
NHS | The National Health Service (called National Health System in Greece) |
NSSG | National Statistical Service of Greece |
OAED | Greek Labour Force Employment Organisation, a national employment organisation |
OAEE | The Social Insurance Fund for Self-Employed Workers |
OECD | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
OEK | Workers Housing Organisation |
OGA | Agricultural Insurance Organisation, insurance fund covering farmers and associated agricultural workers |
OKANA | Anti-Drugs Organisation |
OKE | Economic and Social Council of Greece |
OPAD | The Social Insurance Fund for Civil Servants |
OTE | The Greek Telecommunications Organisation |
OTOE | Federation of Bank Employees Trade Unions |
PASOK | Pan-Hellenic Socialist Party |
PESY | Regional Health Authority (called Regional Health System in Greece) SEB Federation of Greek Industries |
TAE | The Social Insurance Fund for Merchants |
TEAM | A Supplementary Social Insurance Fund (in IKA) |
TEBE | The Social Insurance Fund for Self-Employed Workers and Artisans (now part of OAEE) |
Jennifer Cavounidis teaches Sociology at the Athens University of Economics and Business and does research on labour market issues at the Employment Observatory Research-Informatics.
Konstantina Davaki is Research Officer in Social Policy at LSE Health & Social Care at The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Kevin Featherstone is Eleftherios Venizelos Professor and Director of the Hellenic Observatory, European Institute, The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Dionissis N. Gravaris is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Crete.
Maria Karamessini is Assistant Professor in Labour Economics at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, and a member, since 1997, of the European Commission expert group on Gender and Employment.
Manos Matsaganis is Assistant Professor of European Employment and Social Policies at the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Theodoros Mitrakos is an Economist in the Economic Research Department at the Bank of Greece.
Elias Mossialos is Brian Abel Smith Professor of Health Policy and Co-Director of LSE Health & Social Care at The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Theodoros Papadopoulos is Lecturer in Social Policy and Director of the European Research Institute at the University of Bath.
Christos Papatheodorou is Assistant Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Administration, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.
Maria Petmesidou is Professor of Social Policy at Democritus University of Thrace. She was previously Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Crete.
Iordanis Psimmenos is Lecturer of Sociology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.