This paper looks at public and private sector wages interactions since the 1960s in the euro area, euro area countries … public and private sector wages over the business cycle; this finding is robust across methods and measures of wages and … quite general across countries. Second, we show evidence of long-run relationships between public and private sector wages …

This communiqué is based on the following paper: Public Sector Wages in Alberta: How do these Compare to Other … the wages and salaries of public sector workers with private sector workers with similar characteristics, such as …

compensation than private sector workers, ceteris paribus. With respect to hourly remuneration (wages plus employer contributions … taking jobs in the public sector, either with respect to wages or pension wealth …

. In the case of Ukraine, we find that public sector employees receive 24-32% less wages than their private sector …