responsibility for the Eurozone crisis from the private to the public sector. Focusing on Greece, I argue that the ECB constructed … the morality of the public debtor in such a way as to make this transfer of responsibility easier and the imposition of … exclusively in terms of public sector responsibility. However, the ECB also employed a range of non-linguistic policy measures …

We estimate the public-private sector pay gap for 27 European countries, using the 2008 EU SILC. The coefficients of … conditional (on personal and job characteristics) public sector controls give a first impression on wage differences, while … decomposition analyses show that the public-private pay gap is, generally, negatively related to income quantiles. …

European states highly differ and reflect in some way the functioning of the welfare states. Taking public service obligation … as a starting point does not automatically imply to regard SSGI production and finance a solely public affair. Rather …, this is mostly done in some way of public-private governance and investment arrangements, depending on the concrete SSGI …