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I want to leave Greece

30 August 2010 / 12:08:01  GRReporter
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A survey of Kappa Research shows that seven out of ten young people who study or have completed university or college prefer to find work abroad, and four out of ten have already begun to look for a job. So, maybe Greece is preparing for a wave of emigration equivalent, according to forecasts, to that of the 1960s.

The new wave of immigrants are mainly students and it threatens to lead to long-term recession in the market and fewer opportunities for permanent and secure job offered by Greek companies. The shocking conclusions of the Kappa Research survey, which are presented in the Vima newspaper, are that seven out of ten Greeks who have completed university or are on the verge of taking their degree would have left the country to find work abroad with the greatest pleasure. And half of them have already started looking for a job.

The survey covered the whole of Greece and was made with the support of the in.gr website. It was held among 5 442 young people aged between 22 and 35 years. Most of them seek employment or already work, but in unsatisfactory conditions. Young people responses show their concern about their future and disappointment in the current state of the labour market. The survey reflects young people lack confidence in the political parties and the state. They said that the reason that led them to the decision to seek work abroad is the ruling corruption and the state’s lack of rules of objectivity and transparency.

The most groundbreaking finding of the survey is that the majority of young people with higher education in Greece say they want to leave the country to find better paid and stable job abroad. 73.6% say they would leave Greece, and 42 percent say they have already made the first steps to find work or housing abroad, or any educational program to continue their education. 66.4% of those who say they would leave the country also say they would do this to seek better quality of life as a whole, 44.7 percent say the reason to leave is to find a good job, while 32.6 percent want to live in a country where people are valued for their qualities and there is greater transparency.

60.7% say they would prefer to find work to make a career than to find stable employment in the private or public sector in Greece. At the same time, most of them say they are ready to emigrate if they find jobs paying between 1500 and 5000 euros. They emphasize that "the Greeks abroad are twice as good Greeks,” adding that “the country where people can work and live with dignity could become homeland”.  

According to the survey, the young people believe that emigration wave has started in Greece equal in size to the one in the 1960s (54.9% of respondents), while 86.2 percent believe that the solutions offered for overcoming the crisis are still not interested in their needs. The majority of respondents (64.1 percent) are confident that they can not fulfill their dreams and professional goals if they stay in Greece. They also consider that, despite the great information flow today, the opportunities for better education and improvement of life quality, they do not have the opportunity to develop in their profession, or to accumulate assets, but will live in constant fear for their jobs and retirement.  

62.7 percent of the survey respondents have permanent job, 12.4 percent have part-time job and 24.5% do not work and seek employment. 40.6 percent of those working are employed in private companies, 18.7 percent are freelancers, 10.6 percent are civil servants, 6% are technicians or workers, 4.4 percent are company owners. At the same time, 54 percent of the working young people aged between 22 and 35 years are employed in fields related to the education they have completed, 26.65% work in an area partially related to their education and 19.2% are employed in fields that have nothing to do with their education.

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