Greek economic crisis management program and its impact on public employees’ earnings: a case series and literature review

• Autorzy: Spinthiropoulos Konstantinos , Tsiatsiou Efthymia , Garefalakis Alexandros , Chaitidis Georgios , Stavropoulou E.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.17512/pjms.2021.24.2.27

Warianty tytułu

PL

Grecki program zarządzania kryzysem gospodarczym i jego wpływ na doroby pracowników publicznych: seria przypadku i przegląd literatury

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The economic crisis forced the Greek Government to implement a series of controversial fiscal consolidation policies, also known as Memoranda of Economic and Financial Policy (a.k.a. Memoranda), resulting in internal market devaluation and significant inflation alterations in employees’ income in the public and private sector. The purpose of our study was to review the management program of the Greek economic crisis through the enforced economic and fiscal policies and measure its impact on public sector employees' incomes. The authors also presented case series in order to investigate the magnitude of that impact. The study hypothesized that the reforms taken during the Greek economic crisis had a substantial negative impact on employees’ payroll. The authors conducted a literature review in English until June 2021. They searched Scopus, IDEAS/RePEc and primary sources, such as Greek Government Newspaper, Bank of Greece reports, Greek Ministry of Finance reports, European Commission reports, European Union reports, Eurostat reports and Greek Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) reports. Moreover, in order to present the case series, the payroll data were collected from the office of a Greek public university. The study results showed that the fiscal policies that were enforced during the Greek economic crisis period (i.e. Memoranda) had a significant negative impact on the income of the employees of the public sector, irrespective of the employee’s educational status, with 2012 being the year, in which the highest rate of income’s reduction was noticed.

PL

Kryzys gospodarczy zmusił rząd grecki do wdrożenia szeregu kontrowersyjnych polityk konsolidacji fiskalnej, znanych również jako Memorandy Polityki Gospodarczej i Finansowej (inaczej Memoranda), skutkujących dewaluacją rynku wewnętrznego i znacznymi zmianami inflacji w dochodach pracowników w społeczeństwie i sektor prywatny. Celem naszego badania był przegląd programu zarządzania greckim kryzysem gospodarczym poprzez narzuconą politykę gospodarczą i fiskalną oraz zmierzenie jego wpływu na dochody pracowników sektora publicznego. Autorzy przedstawili również serie przypadków w celu zbadania wielkości tego wpływu. W badaniu wysunięto hipotezę, że reformy podjęte podczas greckiego kryzysu gospodarczego miały istotny negatywny wpływ na płace pracowników. Autorzy dokonali przeglądu literatury w języku angielskim do czerwca 2021 r. Przeszukali Scopus, IDEAS/RePEc oraz źródła podstawowe, takie jak: gazeta rządu greckiego, raporty Banku Grecji, raporty greckiego Ministerstwa Finansów, raporty Komisji Europejskiej, raporty Unii Europejskiej, raporty Eurostatu oraz sprawozdania greckiego urzędu statystycznego (ELSTAT). Ponadto, w celu przedstawienia serii przypadków, dane dotyczące wynagrodzeń zostały zebrane z biura greckiego uniwersytetu publicznego. Wyniki badania wykazały, że polityki fiskalne, które były egzekwowane w okresie greckiego kryzysu gospodarczego (tj. Memorandy) miały istotny negatywny wpływ na dochody pracowników sektora publicznego, niezależnie od ich wykształcenia, przy czym rokiem 2012 był rok, w którym odnotowano najwyższą stopę spadku dochodów.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

governance; financial crisis; public sector; payroll taxes; memoranda; value added tax

PL

zarządzanie; kryzys finansowy; sektor publiczny; podatek od wynagrodzeń; memoranda; podatek od wartości dodanej

• Wydawca: Czestochowa University of Technology
• Czasopismo: Polish Journal of Management Studies
• Rocznik: 2021
• Tom: Vol. 24, No. 2
• Strony: 431--448
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 41 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Spinthiropoulos Konstantinos

• University of West Macedonia, Department of Management Science & Technology

autor

Tsiatsiou Efthymia

• University of West Macedonia, Department of Management Science & Technology

autor

Garefalakis Alexandros

• Hellenic Mediterranean University, Department of Business Administration and Tourism

autor

Chaitidis Georgios

• University Western Macedonia, Department of Procurement and Estates Management

autor

Stavropoulou E.

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MEiN, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2022-2023).