Occupational Mobility Dimensions in Greece

Abstract

Mobility of labour both geographical and job or occupational mobility according to reports of several European Foundations and Institutes (e.g. Eurofound, IZA, CEPS, Danish Technological Institute etc), is an EU key objective of the European labour market. While mobility operates as one of EU's real adjustment mechanisms for macroeconomic shocks, its low levels still remain a serious problem for the European Integration (Janiak, A. &Wasmer, E., 2008). As there is a lack of relevant researches on this field in Greece, this paper attempts to study the employment mobility of Greek unemployed job seekers. Job mobility, geographical mobility and occupational mobility, combined with job mobility or regardless job mobility, are being correlated with career attitudes, using the Boundaryless Career Attitudes Scale, constructed by Briscoe & Hall (2005), as well as several concepts of networking, based on three questionnaires studying job seeking, constructed by Wanberg et al. (2000) and Lambert et al. (2006). Implicative Statistical Analysis was released for the data analysis. In this study 62 unemployed people expressed their insights regarding occupational mobility. A strong argument of the impact of occupational mobility on human lives in Greece was made and further implications were discussed