Investigating Southern Europeans’ Perceptions of Their Employment Status

Aggeliki Yfanti (), Catherine Michalopoulou (), Aggelos Mimis () and Stelios Zachariou ()
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Aggeliki Yfanti: Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Catherine Michalopoulou: Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Aggelos Mimis: Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Stelios Zachariou: Hellenic Statistical Authority

Chapter Chapter 21 in Demography and Health Issues, 2018, pp 251-263 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) measurement of the employment status is based on a synthesized economic construct computed according to the ILO conventional definitions of the employed, unemployed and inactive. Since the late 2000s, a variable measuring people’s perceptions of their employment status has been included in the EU-LFS questionnaire as it is used in all large-scale sample surveys, i.e. one of the occupational background variables. These measurements are not comparable and their results will differ since a composite economic construct would normally deviate from people’s perceptions. The purpose of this paper is, by obtaining a social “profile” of agreement and disagreement between Southern Europeans’ declared self-perceptions of their employment status and the ILO conventional definitions, to investigate whether or not conflicting and coinciding perceptions differ overtime within-nations and cross-nationally. The analysis is based on the 2008–2014 annual datasets for Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The results are reported for the age group 15–74 so as to allow for comparability with the ILO conventional definition of unemployment.

Keywords: Employment status; ILO; EU-LFS; Southern Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76002-5_21

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