Lois Labrianidis
Biographic Data
| ID | 171817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lois Labrianidis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lois |
| FAMILY NAME | Labrianidis |
| SIGNATURE | LABRIANIDIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Macedonia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0619-6924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Socioeconomic status of international students and its relation to the brain drain: Evidence from Greek PhD holders
Purpose The study examines potential differences in socioeconomic status (SES) and emigration patterns between Greek international students (IS) and non-international students (non-IS) and their relationship to the brain drain from Greece. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on a unique database including all the Greek PhD holders and provides detailed information on their SES and mobility patterns. Furthermore, an individual-level SES in…
Innovation as a cause of highly skilled migration: Evidence from Greece
This study investigates innovation as a cause of highly skilled migration. Drawing on a totally new database that includes all the Greek PhD holders, combined with panel data from the Global Innovation Index covering 57 countries over the 2009–2020 period, we find that innovation constitutes a strong determinant for highly skilled migration. That is, a rise in innovative performance is positively associated with an increase in the number of highl…
Highly educated skilled migrants are attracted to global cities: The case of Greek PhD holders
In this paper, we investigate to what extent highly educated skilled Greek migrants are attracted to global cities. With the use of a novel database, we find that highly educated Greek migrants are attracted more to cities indexed as global than to cities that are not indexed as global. Moreover, the more the international indexes that list a city as global, the greater the number of such migrants this city receives; that is, these migrants prefe…
The Moving Frontier: The Changing Geography of Production in Labour-intensive Industries
Crisis and the resurgence of emigration from Greece: Trends, representations, and the multiplicity of migrant trajectories
In the context and conjuncture of the crisis affecting the Eurozone as whole, yet shaking mostly its “weakest links”, rising unemployment and steep decreases in salaries and welfare allowances are cited as push factors contributing to what is seen as the emergence of a newemigration wave from Southern Europe. This is especially true for Greece, the country which has been hit hardest by the crisis, recession and austerity, and their social and pol…
Living together in multi-ethnic cities: People of migrant background, their interethnic friendships and the neighbourhood
This paper explores the extent to which people of different origins, natives and migrants, come together in everyday life in Europe. Instead of looking at overall ‘perceptions’ and ‘stances’, which are context-dependent and mediated through political-ideological currents and discourses as well as broader patterns of prejudice, we focus on sustained close contacts that suggest meaningful and organic relationships. Since it is most often people of …
Why High School Students Aspire to Emigrate: Evidence from Greece
The Moving Frontier: The Changing Geography of Production in Labour-Intensive Industries
Investing in Leaving: The Greek Case of International Migration of Professionals
In the last twenty years, the ‘international migration of professionals’ from Greece has increased. This paper is based on an extensive survey of Greek professionals who work or have worked in another country. It is the first ever research on the topic in Greece and the first one in the international literature to include participants who are currently abroad or have repatriated. The aim of the paper is threefold. First, it presents the main char…
The mutually reinforcing relation between international migration of highly educated labour force and economic crisis: The case of Greece
Although several studies aim at analysing the causes and impacts of the current economic crisis, especially involving the case of Greece, the role that highly educated population holds has not received wider attention. Based on an examination of both secondary data on the Greek economy/labour market and primary data collected by a survey that included 1821 graduates, this paper shows that underutilization of highly educated population harmed the …
Social Construction of Community and Immigration Networks in Rural Areas: Towards a Dynamic View of Their Importance to Balkan Immigrants
In this study we firstly introduce a source of social capital formation that has not yet been pointed out by the theory of social capital. We do this by historically assessing the social structures in South European rural areas, with a particular focus on the ones prevailing in the Greek countryside. This is the historically embedded sense of community for people living in agricultural communities. Secondly, we introduce immigrants' social networ…
Highly Skilled Migration: What Differentiates the ‘Brains’ Who Are Drained from Those Who Return in the Case of Greece
The migration of highly educated population (brain drain) poses extremely significant impacts on origin countries' development, especially in cases in which, owing to their economic and social structures, these countries cannot promote the efficient allocation of their professionals. At the same time, the decision of those migrants to return home or remain abroad is affected by several factors. This paper aims to analyse this phenomenon by using …
Immigrants’ employment strategies and their economic welfare: The case of the Greek countryside
We investigate the employment strategies developed by Immigrants Working in Agriculture – ‘IWA’ – in Greece. To counter seasonality and the insufficient income of agricultural work, IWA develop employment strategies to improve their economic status. Specifically, we find that IWA develop two distinct and substitute strategies: multi-employment and movements following the crops. These strategies are processes of IWA integration into the local econ…
Local Delocalization across Borders: The Case of the Garment Quasi-Cluster in the Balkans
This paper analyzes local delocalization of Greek manufacturing firms, which have created a garment quasi-cluster, participating in Global Production Networks (GPNs) since the 1960s. The process of delocalization has led the shift of the cluster from Northern Greece to the north, since the mid-1990s, crossing the borders of the countries to currently include Southern Bulgaria, and parts of Southern Albania and Southern FYROM as well. This spatial…
Agricultural decline and sustainable development on mountain areas in Greece: Sustainability assessment of future scenarios
Thessaloniki's Arrested Development: Missed Opportunities
Cities are crucial nodes of global economic networks. A city's economic success largely depends on its social capital and the existence of a hegemonic coalition for development. This paper focuses on Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece, a country on the European periphery. The slow pace of development during the last 20 years has placed Thessaloniki in a vicious circle. It is argued that given the significant structural problems in Gr…
Delocalization of Economic Activity: Agents, Places and Industries
Delocalization of economic activity: agents, places and industries, Regional Studies. Global integration and the delocalization of economic activity have been two interrelated and defining trends of the last forty years or so. In deciphering these two trends researchers developed a number of theoretical frameworks that focused particularly on informing policy practice. Within this context, this theme issue aspires to use insights gained from rigo…
Migrant Entrepreneurship in Greece: Diversity of Pathways for Emerging Ethnic Business Communities in Thessaloniki
Migrants, Economic Mobility and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Areas: The Case of Greece
This article evaluates the contribution of Immigrants Working in Agriculture (IWA) and their socio-economic mobility over time. Up to the present, European and Greek literature has focused on immigrants' impact on metropolitan areas, in part due to the relatively insignificant role of agriculture in the European economies. Moreover, concerning the socio-economic mobility of IWA only snapshot views are available in the literature. Through field-wo…
Geographical Proximity and Immigrant Labour in Agriculture: Albanian Immigrants in the Greek Countryside
We investigate the importance of geographical proximity between Greece and Albania for the migrating experience of Albanian immigrants who work in the Greek countryside. From the fieldwork research we conducted in the countryside of northern Greece we find that the geographical proximity between Greece and Albania (the fact that they are bordering countries) and the inherent seasonality of agricultural employment allow immigrants to make rapid an…
Albanian Return-migrants from Greece and Italy: Their Impact upon Spatial Disparities within Albania
The paper focuses on two of the most important challenges that contemporary Albania has to face: emigration, which has divested the country of about one-fifth of its population, and internal migration, resulting in unprecedented spatial disparities devastating most of the country, particularly rural areas, and substantially increasing the population of Tirana and to a lesser extent Durres.This paper specifically addresses the issue of how emigrat…
Planning culture and time in a mega-event: Thessaloniki as the European city of culture in 1997
This paper addresses the growing importance of mega-events in urban cultural development, focusing on the atypical example of the European Cities of Culture, in particular Thessaloniki in 1997. The launch of the event demonstrates the significance of the international role of cultural activities in urban and economic regeneration. Comparison of the evaluation of Thessaloniki before and after the event demonstrates a lack of strategic planning, pa…
Back and forth and in between: Returning albanian migrants from Greece and Italy
Inflow of migrants and outflow of investment: Aspects of interdependence between Greece and the Balkans
Along with the other Southern EU member-states, Greece has moved from a country of emigration to become a migrant-receiving country. The influx of migrants occurred during the 1990s, following the dramatic events in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, with the majority of immigrants being clandestine. The bulk of the immigrant population are nationals of neighbouring Balkan states, predominantly Albanians. Coinciding with the influx of immigrants…
Family Production and the Global Market: Rural Industrial Growth in Greece
Rural areas in southern Europe generally, and in Greece in particular, have undergone rapid economic growth and structural transformation over the last three decades. The emergence of family-owned and run businesses in agriculture, manufacturing and tourism was the common element to this phenomenon. However, the systematic investigation of change in the countryside was hampered by the perpetuation of an artificial dichotomy between economic geogr…
Highly Skilled Migration: What Differentiates the ‘Brains’ Who Are Drained from Those Who Return in the Case of Greece
The migration of highly educated population (brain drain) poses extremely significant impacts on origin countries' development, especially in cases in which, owing to their economic and social structures, these countries cannot promote the efficient allocation of their professionals. At the same time, the decision of those migrants to return home or remain abroad is affected by several factors. This paper aims to analyse this phenomenon by using …
Agricultural decline and sustainable development on mountain areas in Greece: Sustainability assessment of future scenarios
Albanian Return-migrants from Greece and Italy: Their Impact upon Spatial Disparities within Albania
The paper focuses on two of the most important challenges that contemporary Albania has to face: emigration, which has divested the country of about one-fifth of its population, and internal migration, resulting in unprecedented spatial disparities devastating most of the country, particularly rural areas, and substantially increasing the population of Tirana and to a lesser extent Durres.This paper specifically addresses the issue of how emigrat…
Migrants, Economic Mobility and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Areas: The Case of Greece
This article evaluates the contribution of Immigrants Working in Agriculture (IWA) and their socio-economic mobility over time. Up to the present, European and Greek literature has focused on immigrants' impact on metropolitan areas, in part due to the relatively insignificant role of agriculture in the European economies. Moreover, concerning the socio-economic mobility of IWA only snapshot views are available in the literature. Through field-wo…
Investing in Leaving: The Greek Case of International Migration of Professionals
In the last twenty years, the ‘international migration of professionals’ from Greece has increased. This paper is based on an extensive survey of Greek professionals who work or have worked in another country. It is the first ever research on the topic in Greece and the first one in the international literature to include participants who are currently abroad or have repatriated. The aim of the paper is threefold. First, it presents the main char…
Inflow of migrants and outflow of investment: Aspects of interdependence between Greece and the Balkans
Along with the other Southern EU member-states, Greece has moved from a country of emigration to become a migrant-receiving country. The influx of migrants occurred during the 1990s, following the dramatic events in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, with the majority of immigrants being clandestine. The bulk of the immigrant population are nationals of neighbouring Balkan states, predominantly Albanians. Coinciding with the influx of immigrants…
Living together in multi-ethnic cities: People of migrant background, their interethnic friendships and the neighbourhood
This paper explores the extent to which people of different origins, natives and migrants, come together in everyday life in Europe. Instead of looking at overall ‘perceptions’ and ‘stances’, which are context-dependent and mediated through political-ideological currents and discourses as well as broader patterns of prejudice, we focus on sustained close contacts that suggest meaningful and organic relationships. Since it is most often people of …
Thessaloniki's Arrested Development: Missed Opportunities
Cities are crucial nodes of global economic networks. A city's economic success largely depends on its social capital and the existence of a hegemonic coalition for development. This paper focuses on Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece, a country on the European periphery. The slow pace of development during the last 20 years has placed Thessaloniki in a vicious circle. It is argued that given the significant structural problems in Gr…
Geographical Proximity and Immigrant Labour in Agriculture: Albanian Immigrants in the Greek Countryside
We investigate the importance of geographical proximity between Greece and Albania for the migrating experience of Albanian immigrants who work in the Greek countryside. From the fieldwork research we conducted in the countryside of northern Greece we find that the geographical proximity between Greece and Albania (the fact that they are bordering countries) and the inherent seasonality of agricultural employment allow immigrants to make rapid an…
Diffused Industrialization in Thessaloniki: From Expansion to Crisis
Until recently, defensive practices of restructuring have been adopted in many industrial cities of southern Europe, based on diffused industrialization, the availability of cheap labour, non-planning and illegal modes of operation. This paper examines to what extent emerging crisis and the prospect of the Single Market are likely to modify this 'model' of restructuring and under what conditions policy proposals, such as 'endogenous development',…
Highly educated skilled migrants are attracted to global cities: The case of Greek PhD holders
In this paper, we investigate to what extent highly educated skilled Greek migrants are attracted to global cities. With the use of a novel database, we find that highly educated Greek migrants are attracted more to cities indexed as global than to cities that are not indexed as global. Moreover, the more the international indexes that list a city as global, the greater the number of such migrants this city receives; that is, these migrants prefe…
Why High School Students Aspire to Emigrate: Evidence from Greece
Delocalization of Economic Activity: Agents, Places and Industries
Delocalization of economic activity: agents, places and industries, Regional Studies. Global integration and the delocalization of economic activity have been two interrelated and defining trends of the last forty years or so. In deciphering these two trends researchers developed a number of theoretical frameworks that focused particularly on informing policy practice. Within this context, this theme issue aspires to use insights gained from rigo…
Migrant Entrepreneurship in Greece: Diversity of Pathways for Emerging Ethnic Business Communities in Thessaloniki
Family Production and the Global Market: Rural Industrial Growth in Greece
Rural areas in southern Europe generally, and in Greece in particular, have undergone rapid economic growth and structural transformation over the last three decades. The emergence of family-owned and run businesses in agriculture, manufacturing and tourism was the common element to this phenomenon. However, the systematic investigation of change in the countryside was hampered by the perpetuation of an artificial dichotomy between economic geogr…
Flexibility in Production through Subcontracting: The Case of the Poultry Meat Industry in Greece
The author focuses on the issue of flexibility in production using a particular historical example: that of the poultry meat industry in Greece. The case study material is presented as an example of the advantages of theoretically informed empirical research and realist methodology for studying uneven capitalist development and the enormous range of contrasting configurations of capitalist production and its spatial distribution. The poultry meat…
Innovation as a cause of highly skilled migration: Evidence from Greece
This study investigates innovation as a cause of highly skilled migration. Drawing on a totally new database that includes all the Greek PhD holders, combined with panel data from the Global Innovation Index covering 57 countries over the 2009–2020 period, we find that innovation constitutes a strong determinant for highly skilled migration. That is, a rise in innovative performance is positively associated with an increase in the number of highl…
Local Delocalization across Borders: The Case of the Garment Quasi-Cluster in the Balkans
This paper analyzes local delocalization of Greek manufacturing firms, which have created a garment quasi-cluster, participating in Global Production Networks (GPNs) since the 1960s. The process of delocalization has led the shift of the cluster from Northern Greece to the north, since the mid-1990s, crossing the borders of the countries to currently include Southern Bulgaria, and parts of Southern Albania and Southern FYROM as well. This spatial…
Restructuring the Greek Tobacco Industry
Restructuring the Greek Tobacco Industry
Diffused Industrialization in Thessaloniki: From Expansion to Crisis
Until recently, defensive practices of restructuring have been adopted in many industrial cities of southern Europe, based on diffused industrialization, the availability of cheap labour, non-planning and illegal modes of operation. This paper examines to what extent emerging crisis and the prospect of the Single Market are likely to modify this 'model' of restructuring and under what conditions policy proposals, such as 'endogenous development',…
Establishing Universities as a Policy for Local Economic Development: An Assessment of the Direct Economic Impact of Three Provincial Greek Universities
Flexibility in Production through Subcontracting: The Case of the Poultry Meat Industry in Greece
The author focuses on the issue of flexibility in production using a particular historical example: that of the poultry meat industry in Greece. The case study material is presented as an example of the advantages of theoretically informed empirical research and realist methodology for studying uneven capitalist development and the enormous range of contrasting configurations of capitalist production and its spatial distribution. The poultry meat…
Family Production and the Global Market: Rural Industrial Growth in Greece
Rural areas in southern Europe generally, and in Greece in particular, have undergone rapid economic growth and structural transformation over the last three decades. The emergence of family-owned and run businesses in agriculture, manufacturing and tourism was the common element to this phenomenon. However, the systematic investigation of change in the countryside was hampered by the perpetuation of an artificial dichotomy between economic geogr…
Back and forth and in between: Returning albanian migrants from Greece and Italy
Inflow of migrants and outflow of investment: Aspects of interdependence between Greece and the Balkans
Along with the other Southern EU member-states, Greece has moved from a country of emigration to become a migrant-receiving country. The influx of migrants occurred during the 1990s, following the dramatic events in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, with the majority of immigrants being clandestine. The bulk of the immigrant population are nationals of neighbouring Balkan states, predominantly Albanians. Coinciding with the influx of immigrants…
Planning culture and time in a mega-event: Thessaloniki as the European city of culture in 1997
This paper addresses the growing importance of mega-events in urban cultural development, focusing on the atypical example of the European Cities of Culture, in particular Thessaloniki in 1997. The launch of the event demonstrates the significance of the international role of cultural activities in urban and economic regeneration. Comparison of the evaluation of Thessaloniki before and after the event demonstrates a lack of strategic planning, pa…
Albanian Return-migrants from Greece and Italy: Their Impact upon Spatial Disparities within Albania
The paper focuses on two of the most important challenges that contemporary Albania has to face: emigration, which has divested the country of about one-fifth of its population, and internal migration, resulting in unprecedented spatial disparities devastating most of the country, particularly rural areas, and substantially increasing the population of Tirana and to a lesser extent Durres.This paper specifically addresses the issue of how emigrat…
Migrants, Economic Mobility and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Areas: The Case of Greece
This article evaluates the contribution of Immigrants Working in Agriculture (IWA) and their socio-economic mobility over time. Up to the present, European and Greek literature has focused on immigrants' impact on metropolitan areas, in part due to the relatively insignificant role of agriculture in the European economies. Moreover, concerning the socio-economic mobility of IWA only snapshot views are available in the literature. Through field-wo…
Geographical Proximity and Immigrant Labour in Agriculture: Albanian Immigrants in the Greek Countryside
We investigate the importance of geographical proximity between Greece and Albania for the migrating experience of Albanian immigrants who work in the Greek countryside. From the fieldwork research we conducted in the countryside of northern Greece we find that the geographical proximity between Greece and Albania (the fact that they are bordering countries) and the inherent seasonality of agricultural employment allow immigrants to make rapid an…
Migrant Entrepreneurship in Greece: Diversity of Pathways for Emerging Ethnic Business Communities in Thessaloniki
Immigrants’ employment strategies and their economic welfare: The case of the Greek countryside
We investigate the employment strategies developed by Immigrants Working in Agriculture – ‘IWA’ – in Greece. To counter seasonality and the insufficient income of agricultural work, IWA develop employment strategies to improve their economic status. Specifically, we find that IWA develop two distinct and substitute strategies: multi-employment and movements following the crops. These strategies are processes of IWA integration into the local econ…
Local Delocalization across Borders: The Case of the Garment Quasi-Cluster in the Balkans
This paper analyzes local delocalization of Greek manufacturing firms, which have created a garment quasi-cluster, participating in Global Production Networks (GPNs) since the 1960s. The process of delocalization has led the shift of the cluster from Northern Greece to the north, since the mid-1990s, crossing the borders of the countries to currently include Southern Bulgaria, and parts of Southern Albania and Southern FYROM as well. This spatial…
Agricultural decline and sustainable development on mountain areas in Greece: Sustainability assessment of future scenarios
Thessaloniki's Arrested Development: Missed Opportunities
Cities are crucial nodes of global economic networks. A city's economic success largely depends on its social capital and the existence of a hegemonic coalition for development. This paper focuses on Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece, a country on the European periphery. The slow pace of development during the last 20 years has placed Thessaloniki in a vicious circle. It is argued that given the significant structural problems in Gr…
Delocalization of Economic Activity: Agents, Places and Industries
Delocalization of economic activity: agents, places and industries, Regional Studies. Global integration and the delocalization of economic activity have been two interrelated and defining trends of the last forty years or so. In deciphering these two trends researchers developed a number of theoretical frameworks that focused particularly on informing policy practice. Within this context, this theme issue aspires to use insights gained from rigo…
Highly Skilled Migration: What Differentiates the ‘Brains’ Who Are Drained from Those Who Return in the Case of Greece
The migration of highly educated population (brain drain) poses extremely significant impacts on origin countries' development, especially in cases in which, owing to their economic and social structures, these countries cannot promote the efficient allocation of their professionals. At the same time, the decision of those migrants to return home or remain abroad is affected by several factors. This paper aims to analyse this phenomenon by using …
The mutually reinforcing relation between international migration of highly educated labour force and economic crisis: The case of Greece
Although several studies aim at analysing the causes and impacts of the current economic crisis, especially involving the case of Greece, the role that highly educated population holds has not received wider attention. Based on an examination of both secondary data on the Greek economy/labour market and primary data collected by a survey that included 1821 graduates, this paper shows that underutilization of highly educated population harmed the …
Social Construction of Community and Immigration Networks in Rural Areas: Towards a Dynamic View of Their Importance to Balkan Immigrants
In this study we firstly introduce a source of social capital formation that has not yet been pointed out by the theory of social capital. We do this by historically assessing the social structures in South European rural areas, with a particular focus on the ones prevailing in the Greek countryside. This is the historically embedded sense of community for people living in agricultural communities. Secondly, we introduce immigrants' social networ…
Investing in Leaving: The Greek Case of International Migration of Professionals
In the last twenty years, the ‘international migration of professionals’ from Greece has increased. This paper is based on an extensive survey of Greek professionals who work or have worked in another country. It is the first ever research on the topic in Greece and the first one in the international literature to include participants who are currently abroad or have repatriated. The aim of the paper is threefold. First, it presents the main char…
The Moving Frontier: The Changing Geography of Production in Labour-Intensive Industries
Crisis and the resurgence of emigration from Greece: Trends, representations, and the multiplicity of migrant trajectories
In the context and conjuncture of the crisis affecting the Eurozone as whole, yet shaking mostly its “weakest links”, rising unemployment and steep decreases in salaries and welfare allowances are cited as push factors contributing to what is seen as the emergence of a newemigration wave from Southern Europe. This is especially true for Greece, the country which has been hit hardest by the crisis, recession and austerity, and their social and pol…
Living together in multi-ethnic cities: People of migrant background, their interethnic friendships and the neighbourhood
This paper explores the extent to which people of different origins, natives and migrants, come together in everyday life in Europe. Instead of looking at overall ‘perceptions’ and ‘stances’, which are context-dependent and mediated through political-ideological currents and discourses as well as broader patterns of prejudice, we focus on sustained close contacts that suggest meaningful and organic relationships. Since it is most often people of …
Why High School Students Aspire to Emigrate: Evidence from Greece
Political science (25 works) · Economics (23 works) · Geography (20 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Demographic economics (13 works) · Economic geography (11 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Economy (11 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (11 works)