Unemployment is probably the most serious problem that young people in Greece are facing, especially following the repercussions of the financial crisis in the country. The rate of unemployment among young people in Greece is one of the highest in Europe and much higher than the overall rate of unemployment in the country. These rates are particularly increased as regards women employment. Furthermore, the quality of employment is low. There is a widespread feeling of insecurity among young people because of the flexible forms of employment which they are constrained to turn to particularly due to the deficient operation of control mechanisms, but also as regards the future of the social security and welfare system. However, flexible forms of employment such as part-time employment, uninsured labour, contracts for the rendering of services are issues that nowadays, following the severe economic crisis, concern the entirety of workers in Greece, regardless of age, All those issues have been stressed by the social partners and by the State, without however taking specified initiatives for dealing with them in the context of the social dialogue All info concerning youth unemployment in retrieved from the european industrial relations observatory online, available at http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies/tn1101019s/gr1101019q.htm.

The graph that follows gives an overview of the increase in the youth unemployment rate in the last four years; from 22.1% in 2008 has increased and almost doubled to 42.9% in 2011, being almost the highest increase in Europe after Spain.