• Alexandri, G., Gourzis, K., Katsinas, P., Sakali, C., Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, M., Vrantsis, N. (2026). The gentrification, touristification and housing financialization nexus in Southern European cities. European Urban and Regional Studies, 0(0).
• Emmanouil, E., Gialis, S., & Herod, A. (2026). Workfare for youth and regional resilience in the lagging EU South: a conceptual framework. Labour and Industry, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2026.2660535
• Gourzis, K., & Alexandri, G. (2026). The evolving modalities of gentrification in Athens vis-à-vis Greece’s shifting growth models: Insight from a novel multi-scalar approach. European Urban and Regional Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764251407087
• Otokiti, K., Gourzis, K., & Kizos, T. (2026). Touristification Patterns in Greek Islands: A Composite Index Approach. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Horizons
• Gourzis, K., Psarologos, D., Papadimitriou, M., Sermpezis, P., & Gialis, S. (2025). Tourism accommodation and housing affordability: insight from a geo-spatial analysis in Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
• Gourzis, K., Dagkouli-Kyriakoglou, M., & Gialis, S. (2026). Tourism must be defended: Touristification and precarity in Greece’s two major metropolises. Tourism Geographies (submitted, under review)
• Gourzis, K., Psarologos, D., Sykas, G., & Gialis, S. (2025). Examining Touristification in the EU Regions through a Composite Indicator Methodology. In Korres, G., Michailidis, M., & Sepetis, A. (ed.) Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Economic Geography and Spatial Planning. IGI Global.
• Gourzis, K. & Petas, D. (2025). From the Olympic Games to international gentrification: A critical genealogy of Athens’ transformation through tourism. Geographies (short article forthcoming)
• Gourzis, K., & Gialis, S. (2025) Touristification geographies in the EU during the 2010s recession: a Composite Index analysis. Social Indicators Research (Soc Indic Res). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03720-9 
• Avagianou, A., Herod, A., Gialis, S., (2025). Spatialities of youth transitions in the age of Workfarism. Geography Compass, to be announced.
• Krommyda, V., Gialis, S., Stratigea, A., (2025). Linking labour regimes and socio-ecological fixes: the low-carbon transition of electricity production in Greece, Journal of Economic Geography, 2025;, lbaf039, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaf039
• Emmanouil, E., Gourzis, K., Boukouvalas, K. and Gialis, S., (2025). Investing in human capital in the era of European Universities: A comparative analysis of skill mismatches across the regions of the ERUA countries. Open Research Europe, 3, 166.
• Avagianou, A., Gialis, S. and Farrugia, D., (2024). Precarious Youthspaces of Work and Diverse Economies in the EU South: A Conceptualization Attempt. YOUNG, 11033088241261001.
• Krommyda, V., Gourzis, K. and Gialis, S., (2024). Youth employment amid successive crises and the low-carbon transition: The case of Eurozone coal regions. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 25148486241250008.
• Avagianou, A., Chatzichristos, G., Herod, A. and Gialis, S., (2024). Precarity and agency in youthspaces of work: The case of food delivery platform workers in Athens, Greece. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 0308518X241282536.
• Tsapala, F., Chorianopoulos, I., Gaki, E. and Gialis, S., (2023). The Mediterranean City and EU integration: Divergent resurgence paths and new forms of north-south urban divide. Cities, 138, 104352.
• Emmanouil, E., Herod, A., Gourzis, K. and Gialis, S., (2023). Youth labour markets in the Southern European Union, 2009–2021: deciphering trajectories of resilience through a decade of consecutive crises. Geografisk Tidsskrift – Danish Journal of Geography, 123(2), 69–86.
• Emmanouil, E., Chatzichristos, G., Herod, A. and Gialis, S., (2023). In what way a ‘Guarantee for youth’? NEETs entrapped by labour market policies in the European Union. Journal of Youth Studies,1-20.
• Kapitsinis, N., & Gialis, S. (2023). The spatial division of precarious labour across the European Union regions: A composite index analysis of the 2008/2009 global economic crisis effects and COVID-19 initial implications. European Urban and Regional Studies, 30(4), 380-403.
• Avagianou, A., Kapitsinis, N., Papageorgiou, I., Strand, A. H., & Gialis, S. (2022). Being NEET in Youthspaces of the EU South: A Post-recession Regional Perspective. YOUNG, 30(5), 425–454.
• Avagianou, A., Gourzis, K., Pissourios, I., Theodoros Iosifides, & Gialis, S. (2022). Quite promising yet marginal? A comparative study of social economy in the EU South. Comparative European Politics, 20, 484–509.
• Avagianou, A., Kizos, T., & Gialis, S. (2022). Young NEETs in the EU South: socio-spatial and gender divisions in between the Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic. Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, 122(1), 32–45.
• Gourzis, K., Herod, A., Chorianopoulos, I., & Gialis, S. (2022). On the recursive relationship between gentrification and labour market precarisation: Evidence from two neighbourhoods in Athens, Greece. Urban Studies, 59(12), 2545–2564.
• Gourzis, K. (2022). Labour in changing urban landscapes: A multi-scalar analysis of the reciprocal links between gentrification and the growth of flexible and precarious labour in Athens, Greece. Geographies Journal 37, 90-97. [in Greek].
• Herod, A., Gialis, S., Psifis, S., Gourzis, K., & Mavroudeas, S. (2022). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon employment and inequality in the Mediterranean EU: An early look from a Labour Geography perspective. European Urban and Regional Studies, 29(1), 3–20.
• Kapitsinis, N., Poulimas, M., Emmanouil, E., & Gialis, S. (2022). Spatialities of being a young NEET in an era of turbulence: a critical account of regional resilience across the Mediterranean EU South. Journal of Youth Studies.
• Pesquera Alonso, C., Iniesta Martínez, A., Muñoz Sánchez, P. (2022). Barriers That Keep Vulnerable People as NEETs. Social Sciences, 11(6), 253.
• Pesquera Alonso, C., Muñoz Sánchez, P., & Iniesta Martínez, A. (2022). Is there a uniform NEET identity in the European Union? International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 27(1), 207–220.
• Herod, A., Gourzis, K., & Gialis, S. (2021). Inter-regional underemployment and the industrial reserve army: Precarity as a contemporary Greek drama. European Urban and Regional Studies, 28(4), 413-430.
• Pesquera Alonso, C., Muñoz Sánchez, P., & Iniesta Martínez, A. (2021). Youth guarantee: Looking for explanations. Sustainability (Switzerland), 13(10).
• Kanelleas, A., Psarologos, D., Voulgaris, D., Gourzis, K., & Gialis, S. (2020). The harsh uneven regional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: an account for the Mediterranean EU South based on the ‘COVID-19_Regional_Labour’ web GIS. The Greek Review of Social Research 154: 29-39 [in Greek].
• Kanelleas, A., Psarologos, D., Voulgaris, D., Gourzis, K., & Gialis, S. (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the world of work: On the occasion of the ‘COVID-19_Regional_Labour’ WebGis Dashboard for the Mediterranean European South. Short article. Geographies Journal [in Greek].
• Gourzis, K., & Gialis, S. (2019). Dismantled spatial fixes in the aftermath of recession: Capital switching and labour underutilization in the Greek capital metropolitan region. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 43(4), 741-759.
• Gourzis, K., Herod, A., & Gialis, S. (2019). Linking Gentrification and Labour Market Precarity in the Contemporary City: A Framework for Analysis. Antipode, 51(5), 1436-1455.
• Gialis, S., Gourzis, K., & Underthun, A. (2018). ‘Going under-employed’: Industrial and regional effects, specialization and part-time work across recession-hit Southern European Union regions. European Urban and Regional Studies, 25(3), 300-319.

Papers in Conference Proceedings

• Gourzis, K., Alexandridis, G., Gialis, S., & Caridakis, G. (2019). Studying the Spatialities of Short-Term Rentals’ Sprawl in the Urban Fabric: The Case of Airbnb in Athens, Greece. In IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (pp. 196-207). Springer, Cham.
• Gourzis K., Gialis S. (2017). Gentrification in the Greek context: Urban transformations and labour markets amid crisis. In Cities and regions in a changing Europe: challenges and prospects: 54th ASRDLF & 15th ERSA-GR conference. Ηosted by Panteion University, 5-7 July 2017, Athens, Greece.
• Gourzis K., Seretis St., Tsampra M., Underthun A., & Gialis St. (2016). Regional industrial mix, specialization and un/under-employment across Greek regions: estimating the harsh impact of austerity based on location quotient analysis. In the 7th annual conference for the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE). Hosted by the School of Economics and Management (Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão) and by the University of Lisbon, 7-9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2016, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Gialis St., Mavroudeas St., Gourzis K. (2015), ‘Atypical and irregular employment in Southern EU cities: resurgence of an industrial reserve army’. In the 33rd International Labour Process Conference. Hosted by Panteion University, 13-15 Απρίλη, Αθήνα, Ελλάδα.

• Gourzis, K., Psarologos, D., Sykas, G., Gialis, S., (2025). Examining Touristification in the EU Regions through a Composite Indicator Methodology. Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Economic Geography and Spatial Planning. IGI Global Scientific Publishing. pp.223-240.
• Gialis S., Gourzis K., and Herod, A. (2025) Working-class property developers and the right to housing in the Greek city. Handbook of Labour Geography. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 270-283.
• Emmanouil E., Saroukou A., Gourzis K., Gialis S., (2025). A critical approach to the relationship between human capital and flourishing development: A comparative analysis of skills mismatches at the regional level. Soft skills and labour transitions. Theoretical and empirical approaches. pp. 47-63 (in Greek)
• Krommyda, V., Gialis, S. and Stratigea, A., (2024). Climate crisis and labour market inequalities: A socio-ecological fix approach to energy transition in Greece. In Research Handbook on Inequalities and Work, pp. 540–554.
• Poulimas, M., Chatzichristos, G., Spyridakis, M. and Gialis, S., (2024). Young NEETs, socio-spatial inequalities and labour precariousness: A multi-scale regional account. In Inequalities, Youth and the Labour Market, pp. 14–27.
• Gialis St., Gourzis K., & Herod, A. (2022) Micro-ownership, labour agency, and the right to housing in the Greek city. In Herod, A. (ed.) Handbook of Labour Geography. Edward Elgar Publishing. (forthcoming).
• Effie Emmanouil, Michalis Poulimas, Ioannis Papageorgiou, Anne Hege Strand, Stelios Gialis, “Dimensions socio-spatiales du phénomène des NEET dans les pays méditerranéens du Sud de l’UE: une dynamique régionale hétérogène dans le sillage de la crise”, in Populations et crises en Méditerranée, ed. Gil Bellis, Maria Carella, Jean-François Léger, Alain Parant (Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2021), p. 21-44.