Purpose This paper investigates the potential wage impacts of a shift to more
environmentally sustainable production patterns. Design/methodology/approach The …

Evidence from many countries shows that public sector employees have considerably
higher rates of absenteeism than have private sector employees. Based on regression …

We uncover the short-and long-run structural determinants of the existing cross-country
heterogeneity in public-private pay differentials for a broad set of OECD countries. We …

The Italian gender wage gap is lower than in other European countries, however it
increased during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, while in most countries it decreased. This …

We analyze the gender differences in skills, tasks and skill matching of workers, and the
impact of these factors on the gender wage gap, using the Survey of Adult Skills, a product of …

There is a large body of evidence showing that for many countries the structure of wages
and pensions and the labor law legislation are different for public and private employees …

We model the debt maturity choice of firms in the presence of fixed issuance costs in the
primary market and search frictions in the secondary market for debt. In the secondary …

The public-private sector wage gap is an important labor market indicator, reflecting sectoral
differences in wage and recruitment policies. We provide new evidence on this sectoral gap …

Considering the year prior to the international and sovereign crises (2007) as a benchmark
and studying all years until the crises receded (2013) in most of the 31 countries available in …

This paper updates the available evidence on the public–private wage gap in Spain, which
dates back to 2012. Through microdata drawn from the last three waves of the Wage …