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. …

This work explores that Brazilian public firms were allowed to hire workers either as statutory ("civil servants") as …

the method demonstrated here, which can help in assessing governance of any public service towards further policy …

This paper is a first attempt at differentiating the problems of finance of the privately held small businesses from …

In an emerging field of scholarship such as Small Business Finance, there is often a chicken-and-egg problem at the … and teaching resources developed at or through the School of Accounting, Finance, and Management at The Flinders …

unconstrained in both product and factor markets, finance has been widely identified as a potential constraint on entrepreneurial … activity due to either debt or equity gaps. However, in terms of externally supplied finance, it is arguably the availability … with the provision of debt finance, the nature of the relationship between bank and entrepreneur can be of considerable …

firm finance. Specifically, I present web pages that focus on general entrepreneurial issues and different avenues for … acquiring capital. The three main areas of external financing that I include are venture capital, going public, and loans …