What share of public services employment is contributed by the private sector?
This box examines the composition of “public services” employment in the euro area. This sector has contributed disproportionately to aggregate employment growth in recent years. Drawing on the ECB Consumer Expectations Survey and Eurostat’s EU Labour Force Survey, we show that only around half of the 6.9 million public services jobs created since 2008 can be attributed to the public sector. Within public services, health and social work is the dominant driver, yet this is also the least “publicly provided” sub-sector.