The paper seeks to investigate the relationship between job (in)security in the public sector and workers' self-selection between the private and public sector. Using data from the Italian Labour Force Survey for the years 2005-13, I show that a higher incidence of fixed-term contracts in the...

This paper investigates why workers choose the public versus the private sector to understand which aspects of public sector labour contracts should be improved to attract more high-skilled individuals. Using data from the 2014 wave of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), the paper...

The public sector represents the largest employer in all OECD countries, however the size of the public workforce varies significantly across countries and sectors and over time. This paper provides an analysis of the evolution of public sector employment in Italy over the past decade, combining...