ECONOMY

Nine in 10 jobless Greeks receive no unemployment benefit

Nine in 10 jobless Greeks receive no unemployment benefit

Nine in 10 jobless Greeks do not receive unemployment benefits, according to a study by the country’s statistical authority (ELSTAT) and the Labor Institute of the General Confederation of Greek Labor (INE/GSEE).

The same study found that nearly 74 percent of the unemployed population have been without work for more than 12 months.

Meanwhile, there are 350,000 families without a single employed person, while about 300,000 high-skilled workers have left the country in the past six years in search of better prospects, the study showed.

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