Cross-country variation in the outcomes of public sector wage-setting (PSWS) persists in
Europe. Received wisdom from the neo-corporatist scholarship attributes it to the …

We investigate the public-private wage differentials in ten euro area countries (Austria,
Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain). To account …

I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions to
determine the optimal public sector wage policy. Public sector wages are crucial in …

Against the background of governments' consolidation strategies, ETUI researcher Vera
Glassner provides an overview of recent developments in terms of pay, employment and …

We estimate the real exchange rate impact of shocks to government spending for a panel of
member countries of the euro area. Our key finding is that the impact differs across different …

For the period between 2003 and 2018, we document a number of facts about worker gross
flows in France, the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States, focussing on the role of …

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 academic and policy debate about the crisis in Europe's single currency area is usually
dominated by macroeconomic and public sector considerations. The microeconomic …

It is common wisdom that public sector wages are not determined in the same way as private
sector wages. At the same time, the empirical evidence available for OECD countries finds a …

This special issue (SI) brings the industrial relations scholarship on the public sector into
dialogue with the comparative political economy (CPE) literature on growth models/regimes …