Unemployment and Recession in Greece Lead to Brain Drain - SPIEGEL ONLINE
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Doctors, engineers, IT professionals and scientists have found it increasingly difficult to find work amid deep cuts to funding of health care and other publicly supported sectors.
“The number of young scientists who emmigrate has reached 10 percent of the country’s potential, and that’s very high,” the study’s director Lois Lambrianides told the Athens newspaper Ethnos on Tuesday.
Lambrianides, professor of economic geography at the University of Thessaloniki, said that the emmigrating professionals tend to leave for other European countries, settle in big cities and end up working in the private sector. She said half of them have multiple degrees from the world’s top 100 universities.
The study’s release followed a spec of good economic news last week when government figures showed hirings in the private sector outpaced layoffs in March. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said while the economy remains in “critical” condition, the news was a sign of recovery.