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Ilias holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Piraeus (Greece), an MA in Industrial Relations from Warwick Business School, and a PhD in economics from the University of Warwick. Prior to his appointment in IER, Ilias has been involved in various research and teaching activities in Greece. In 2002-2003, Ilias was employed in the Greek Parliament as a researcher appointed to an MP. Ilias has also worked for the Research Centre of the University of Piraeus, the Greek Centre of Educational Research, and the Labour Institute (INE) of the Greek General Confederation of Labour (GSEE), and he has taught at the Department of Economics of the University of Piraeus. Within the Institute for Employment Research, Ilias has been involved in numerous projects including CEDEFOP' s Pan-European forecasts and FUTURETRACK.
PhD thesis:
In his doctoral thesis, Ilias explored various aspects of the Greek labour market, including wage flexibility, the incidences of unemployment and self-employment, and the labour market of graduates. In addition, he assessed how the available data allow the development of a labour market information system than can be applied in the case of Greece regarding projections of occupations and qualifications. Ilias thesis was supervised by Robert Lindley and Rob Wilson, and examined by Gerry Hughes and Hans Heijke.
Research Interests:
Ilias’ research interests are in the area of labour economics, economics of education, and forecasting occupations and qualifications.
Journal Papers:
The Relationship Between Higher Education and the Labour Market in Greece: The Weakest Link?, Higher Education, (forthcoming) (working paper format)
Wage Returns to University Disciplines in Greece: Are Greek Higher Education University Degrees Trojan Horses? Education Economics, (with Konstantinos Pouliakas) (forthcoming) (also IZA Discussion Paper No. 4442)
Higher Education and Unemployment in Europe: an Analysis of the Academic Subject and National Effects, Higher Education, (with Imanol Nunez) (forthcoming) (abstract).
Gender Employment Discrimination: Greece and the United Kingdom, International Journal of Manpower, (with Cagri Yalkin and Imanol Nunez), 30, 8, 514-538, 2009, (working paper format).
The Wage - Local Unemployment Relationship in a Highly Regulated Labour Market: Greece, Regional Studies, (forthcoming) (abstract).
Modelling the Incidence of Unemployment: the Case of Greece, Applied Economics Letters, 16, 1607-1611, 2009 (abstract).
What Determines Self-Employment? A comparative study, Applied Economics Letters, 16, 227-232, 2009 (abstract).
The Incidence of Long-Term Unemployment: Evidence from Greece, Applied Economics Letters, 14, 405-408, 2007 (abstract).
Papers under revision:
Regional Aspects of Multiple Job-Holding: The Case of Greece (with Alexandros Zangelidis)
Papers submitted to Journals:
The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country (with Konstantinos Pouliakas) (also IZA Discussion Paper 4636).
The Effect of an Academic Degree on Gender Wage Gap: a Comparison Between Greece and the UK (with Imanol Nunez)
Conference Presentations:
The Labour Market of the Youth: evidence from the Labour Force Survey, PanHellenic conference in Career Guidance, ELESYP 28-29 November 2009, Athens.
The transition to the labour market of European Graduates: Choosing academic fields to avoid unemployment and job insecurity, 2nd Conference on the European Labour Market on Academic Gratuates, Maastricht 22-24 October 2009 (with Imanol Nunez).
Modelling the Demand for and Supply of Skills, Workshop on Medium-term forecast of skills supply in Europe: interim results, Skillsnet Technical Workshop, 15-16 October 2009, Malta (with Rob Wilson).
The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country , CRETE 2009, 8-12 Tinos, Greece (with Konstantinos Pouliakas).
The gender wage-gap as a function of educational degree choices in Greece, 2nd IMAEF, 11-12 June, Ioannina (with Konstantinos Pouliakas).
New approaches to modelling the demand for skills, Skillsnet Workshop on Forecasting skill supply and demand in Europe, 9-10 June 2009, Thessaloniki, Cedefop (with Rob Wilson).
Approaches to modelling the supply of skills, Skillsnet Workshop on Forecasting skill supply and demand in Europe, 9-10 June 2009, Thessaloniki, Cedefop (with Rob Wilson).
Explaining numbers is stocks of those aquiring qualifications at a Pan-European level, Skillsnet Workshop on Medium-term forecast of skill supply in Europe: final results, 11-12 December 2008, Cambridge, UK, (with Rob Wilson).
Wage gaps as a function of educational degree choices: Investigating the case of Greece, paper presented in the 2nd International Conference on Educational Economics, Athens 26-30 August 2008 (with Konstantinos Pouliakas) (working paper format).
Higher education and unemployment in Europe: An analysis of the academic subject and national effects, paper presented in the 2nd International Conference on Educational Economics, Athens 26-30 August 2008 (with Imanol Nunez) (presentation).
Trends in stocks of those acquiring qualifications: Multilogit models based on LFS data, Skillsnet Workshop on Medium-term forecast of skills supply in Europe: interim results, 2-3 June 2008, Thessaloniki, Greece, (with Rob Wilson).
Medium term forecast of occupational skill needs in Europe: Details of methods, assumptions and results, Cedefop Skillsnet Agora Conference Skills for Europe’s future, Working Group 1 21-22 February 2008, Thessaloniki, Greece, (with Rob Wilson) (abstract).
Presentation of the “Career Gate Test Κ.17 Plus”, The use of new technologies in professional career guidance, PanHellenic conference in Career Guidance, ELESYP 1-2 December 2007, Athens.
Expansion Demand and Changes in Occupational and Qualifications Structure, Workshop on Medium-term forecast of occupational skill needs in Europe: Final results. 4th Technical Workshop November 8-9 2007, Vienna, (with Rob Wilson).
Expansion demand and changes in occupational structure, Workshop on Medium-term forecast of occupational skill needs in Europe: Interim results. 3RD TECHNICAL WORKSHOP May 7-8 2007, Maastricht, Netherlands: IER University of Warwick, Cedefop (with Rob Wilson).
Comparing National Accounts (NA) and European Labour Survey (ELFS), Workshop on Medium-term forecast of occupational skill needs in Europe: Interim results. 3RD TECHNICAL WORKSHOP May 7-8 2007, Maastricht, Netherlands: IER University of Warwick, Cedefop (with Rob Wilson).
Employment projections: the international experience and the case of Greece, Vocational guidance and its role in the economic growth of a country, Hellenic Society of Counselling and Guidance (ELESYP), Athens 2-3, December 2006.
Historical and future sectoral and occupational trends for the Hellenic Republic, Workshop on Anticipating Europe’s Skill Needs, University of Warwick 2-3 November 2006, Cedefop.
The development of an employment forecasting methodology for the Hellenic Republic, Feasibility workshop on European skill needs forecasting, Cyprus 20-21 October 2005, Cedefop, (presentation).
National Journals (in Greek):
Long-term unemployment in Greece, Industrial Relations Review, 47, pp. 75-80, 2007.
Employment forecasts: best practise review and the case of Greece, Proceedings of the Pan-Hellenic Conference on Counselling and Guidance, Athens 2-3, 12, 2006, The institution of career counselling and guidance and its role in the economic development of the country, Hellenic Society of Counselling and Guidance, pp 196-201, 2007.
The trend and the causes of unemployment in Greece, (with Theodore Katsanevas), Industrial Relations Review, 40, pp4-12, 2006.
The unemployment of the ‘White Collars’, Industrial Relations Review, 35, pp 51-57, 2005.
Active Labour Market Policies: their impact in employment, Employment 2005, pp. 283-289, Panteion University, 2005.
The problems of employment and the role of vocational guidance’ with Theodore Katsanevas, Review of Counselling and Guidance 70-71, 2004, pp 31-40.
Knowledge management success factors, Management Review, 33, pp. 96-104, 2004.
Greek Labour Market 1981-2001: trends and features, Industrial Relations Review, 35, pp 27-42, 2004.
Knowledge economy; is the nature of work being transformed? Industrial Relations Review, 32, 2003, pp 54-60.
The demand side factor and the creation of skill shortages and surpluses, Industrial Relations Review, 29, pp 4-13, 2003.
Other Publications:
Future Skill Needs in Europe: Background Technical Report, Cedefop 2009, ISBN 978-92-896-0506-9, (with Wilson, R., Cörvers, F., Gardiner, B., Kriechel, B., Pollitt, H., and U. Chewpreecha).
Future Skill Supply in Europe, Cedefop 2009, ISBN: 978-92-896-0606-6 (with Wilson, R., Cörvers, F., Gardiner, B., Dupuy, A., Pollitt, H., and U. Chewpreecha).
Medium-term forecast of occupational skill needs in Europe (with Rob Wilson), in Cedefop (2009) Skills for Europe's Future: anticipating occupational skill needs, Cedefop Panorama Series, Luxemburg, p. 54-61.
Future Skill Needs in Europe, Cedefop 2008, ISBN 978-92-896-0500-7, (with Wilson, R., Cörvers, F., Gardiner, B., Kriechel, B., Pollitt, H., and U. Chewpreecha).
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations (with Th. Katsanevas, Th. Koutroukis, Ch. Tzekinis, and E. Hatziharitou), Stamoulis Publications, 3rd edition, ISBN: 978-960-351-472-5 (in Greek).
The development of an employment forecasting methodology for the Hellenic Republic, in Zukersteinova and Striestska-Ilina (2007) Towards European Skill Needs Forecasting, Cedefop Panorama series; 137, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2007 (Paper originally presented at the Feasibility Workshop on European Skill Needs Forecasting, Pafos, Cyprus, 20-21 October 2005). ISBN 978-92-896-0479-6.
Anticipating Europe’s skill needs, Warwick Institute for Employment Research, IER Bulletin, Number 85, 2007 (with Rob Wilson).
Unemployment in Greece: trends and main causes, with Theodore Katsanevas, Volume of Essays in Honour of Professor Panayiotopoulos, University of Piraeus, pp 581-59, 2006.
Europe's skill needs, Skillsnet Newsletter, Cedefop, spring 2007
Ilias has also been publishing articles in various Greek newspapers and newsletters.
Reviews:
Ilias is a reviewer for Applied Economics and Education Economics.
Teaching:
Ilias has done undergraduate seminar teaching for Industrial Relations and for Foundations of Organizational Behaviour classes in 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 for the Warwick Business School.
Scholarships:
Ilias has been granted scholarships from both the National Institute of Scholarships of Greece (IKY) and from the Greek Ministry of Labour.
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