What is the Mechanism?
The Mechanism is a national institution with the following mission:
- Recording, analysis, and visualization of current labour market needs in occupations and skills in relation to the skills offered by the workforce.
- Capture the participation of businesses and employees and the unemployed in training programs.
- Forecast of the needs that will arise in the immediate future and the medium term, based on the dynamics developed by the various economic activities.
- Monitoring changes in the content of occupations and technological developments affecting employment.
When was it founded?
2016
It was established in 2016 by Law N. 4368 and under the supervision of the National Institute of Labor and Human Resources, designated as the scientifically responsible body.
2022
From 2022, by Law N. 4921, it falls under the Unit of Experts in Employment, Social Insurance, Welfare & Social Affairs (Μ.Ε.Κ.Υ.).
Target Audience
- The Greek Public Employment Service and the National Workforce Skills Council, as part of the preparation and review of the Workforce Skills Strategy
- Public bodies, as support for evidence-based policymaking
- Researchers of the labor market as well as students, workers and the unemployed
How it works (what it does)
- Collects statistics from national and European databases (ELSTAT, Ergani, DYPA, AADE, EFKA, Eurostat, ESCO) to monitor jobs created (and lost): by occupation, educational level, gender, age, employment status every month in every region, regional unit and municipality, highlighting the most dynamic professions and industries.
- Compiles, surveys, and studies: business surveys, focus groups and technological research perspectives, quantitative and qualitative data, to identify supply-demand mismatches in occupations and skills, nationally and locally – and the Annual Report.
- Maintains an information system and website for data storage and dissemination of results to the broader public and accredited users.
Planning for the immediate future
- Creation of a tool to determine, every quarter, the balance between the supply and demand of wage labor by profession, gender, and age at the national, regional, and local levels.
- Creation of a Guide to Occupations: Profile of occupations (by 3-digit ISCO-08 classification) with information on employment and unemployment trends of each occupation, average and median salary, incidence of part-time and full-time employment, type of employment contracts, age and gender structure, required qualifications and skills, supply-demand balance at the national and local levels.
- Conduct 6-monthly surveys of businesses on their staffing and skills needs with a focus on digital and green skills: problems, opportunities, prospects by size, industry, legal form, region, and regional unit.
- Studies on the correlation between the economic characteristics of businesses and the jobs they create.
- Coordination and monitoring of Regional Diagnostic Mechanisms, comparison and synthesis of results.
- Skills foresights for 10 leading occupations. Use of focus groups for the most dynamic occupations that the Diagnostic Mechanism will identify.
- Conduct econometric medium-term forecasts for labor supply-demand mismatches by occupation and sector at the national and regional levels
Legislative Documents
Cooperating institutions
