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  "title": "Greece: Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, April 7, 2025",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper analyzes key barriers to labor force participation (LFP) in Greece using household and cross-country data and draw on the literature and simulations to discuss policy options, particularly for women for whom the LFP gap is the largest.",
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      "heading": "Key findings on labor force participation (LFP)",
      "content": "- The paper analyzes key barriers to labor force participation in Greece using household and cross-country data and draws on the literature and simulations to discuss policy options, particularly for women for whom the LFP gap is the largest.\n- Three main constraints are identified:\n  - (1) care responsibilities;\n  - (2) skill mismatches;\n  - (3) weaknesses in the tax-benefit system that reduce work incentives for second earners.\n- Labor force survey data suggest that LFP gender gaps in Greece occur mainly during the working age.\n- Estimates suggest that addressing care responsibilities alone could boost employment by 3 percent."
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      "heading": "Policy recommendations",
      "content": "- Expand access to childcare facilities.\n- Improve parental leave policies.\n- Strengthen targeted tax-benefit incentives to reduce disincentives for second earners.\n- Reforms to address skill mismatches through enhanced private sector participation in education and training.\n- Complementary reforms to boost business dynamism and workplace flexibility to empower women and support economic growth."
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      "heading": "Framing and implications",
      "content": "- Focus is on removing barriers that disproportionately affect women to narrow the LFP gender gap.\n- Combined measures targeting care responsibilities, skills, and incentives are presented as mutually reinforcing and potentially significant for boosting economic growth and prosperity in Greece.\n\nGreece: Selected Issues, IMF Staff Country Reports 2025, 086; April 7, 2025\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Greece: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 25/86; March 11, 2025\n  - Greece: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 25/86; March 11, 2025 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Greece: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 25/86; March 11, 2025 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: April 7, 2025",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229005197.002",
    "The paper analyzes key barriers to labor force participation in Greece using household and cross-country data and draws on the literature and simulations to discuss policy options, particularly for women for whom the LFP gap is the largest.",
    "Three main constraints are identified:",
    "Estimates suggest that addressing care responsibilities alone could boost employment by 3 percent.",
    "Expand access to childcare facilities.",
    "Improve parental leave policies.",
    "Strengthen targeted tax-benefit incentives to reduce disincentives for second earners.",
    "Reforms to address skill mismatches through enhanced private sector participation in education and training.",
    "Complementary reforms to boost business dynamism and workplace flexibility to empower women and support economic growth.",
    "Focus is on removing barriers that disproportionately affect women to narrow the LFP gender gap.",
    "Combined measures targeting care responsibilities, skills, and incentives are presented as mutually reinforcing and potentially significant for boosting economic growth and prosperity in Greece.",
    "**Greece: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 25/86; March 11, 2025**"
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