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 for differences in employment characteristics between the two sectors, we focus on micro data taken from EU-SILC....

This paper uses the Free Disposal Hull framework in order to assess the degree of efficiency of 17 countries (14 ‘old’ EU15 Member States, the United States, Japan and Poland) in the field of education. Within this framework, a country with a high production value and limited costs is more...