Its programs involve micro and small enterprises, mainly engaged in trade, wholesale and retail trade. State Employment Service (DYPA)hiring women, the long-term unemployed and young people not only in Attica and Central Macedonia, but also in the rest of Greece.

The design and implementation of “next generation programmes”, more targeted with strong business incentives and simplified conditions and procedures, with the aim of re-entering the labor market for people facing significant barriers to integration, has resulted in the announcement of a total of 27 programs in recent years employment, for 136,719 jobs.

And according to the latest official data from DYPA in the private sector, 16 job creation programs, 7 professional experience programs and 4 new business creation programs resulted in 78,872 people being hired. unemployed and the approval of 9,455 business plans or the creation of a new business (starting with DOU), bringing the total number of beneficiaries to 88,327.

While there is no official data on how many of these unemployed people who join the program remain in their jobs, analysis of the qualitative data on participants shows a change in the philosophy behind the programs.

And according to the DYPA administration, in total, through new employment programs, some of which relate to public works in the OTA and the state, 109,037 unemployed people participated in the program for 3.5 years, which means that every month they joined the labor market. 2596 unemployed. The number of companies participating in these programs is 47,816. Of these, the largest percentage, i.e. 69% or 32,940 participated with one beneficiary, the maximum number was 42 beneficiaries in one enterprise, while 93% of enterprises participated with 1-3 beneficiaries.

In recent years, 78,872 unemployed people have been recruited, mostly women, but also long-term unemployed.

The distribution of beneficiaries by size of companies participating in new programs over the past 3.5 years clearly shows that applications for participation in programs are submitted mainly by very small companies employing from 1 to 9 people. The recruitment rate in them is 90%. Next come small businesses (from 10 to 49 employees) with a much smaller percentage of 7%.

In terms of the activities carried out by the companies that the beneficiaries eventually joined, the highest percentage, 33%, is in wholesale and retail trade, followed by professional, scientific and technical activities with 15% and, in single digits, manufacturing. (9%), accommodation and catering services (8%) and activities related to human health and social protection (8%).

Basically, in fact, based on the data that introduced “K”although the distribution of beneficiaries across administrative regions is largely influenced by the concentration of the population in them, the focus of some programs on specific regions resulted in 56% of beneficiaries living outside the regions of Attica (23%) and Central Macedonia (21%). %)).

In terms of gender, the data shows that the largest percentage of beneficiaries, 59%, are women, and in terms of age groups, the 30-54 age group ranks first with a 44% share of the total. They are followed by the age group of young people under 29 (40%) and the group of people aged 55 and over with a share of 16%. And in this case, the targeting of programs for specific ages, as it were, creates new data, since according to the registered unemployment data for 2022, the sunny group of unemployed from 30 to 54 years old (59%) prevails, followed by the unemployed over 55 years old (26%) and the unemployed under the age of 30 (16%).

65% of the beneficiaries are pre-post-secondary graduates and tertiary graduates account for 35%. This is despite the fact that the educational level of the unemployed is rarely taken into account when planning programs, which suggests that companies themselves prefer to hire unemployed graduates with at least a secondary education.