Greece - Workers pay price of financial crisis - May 31, 2018

 According to several experts, ordinary workers are paying the price of the financial crisis and reforms that were imposed in the aftermath of the strike. While consumer prices have not fallen, salaries went down by an average of 15% since 2010. According to the country’s leading labour think-tank the Labour Institute, salary cuts should have led to a cut in the prices of products and services but they didn’t because product markets are to a great extent monopolies or oligopolies. The country has a serious skills mismatch with a highly educated workforce that is often overqualified for the jobs that are available.

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