Minimizing the adverse social and economic consequences of the energy transition is an important social aspiration. It is the essence of the "just transition," the connective tissue that binds together climate goals with social outcomes centered around jobs. This policy note proposes the first...

This paper discusses the engagement of the European Investment Bank Group (EIB Group) with the financing and support of SMEs, both within the European Union (EU) as well as EU Candidate Countries and the Balkans. Indeed, lending and providing financial support to SMEs is one of the key core...

Minimizing the adverse social and economic consequences of the energy transition is an important social aspiration. It is the essence of the "just transition," the connective tissue that binds together climate goals with social outcomes centered around jobs. This policy note proposes the first...

We define the wage incentive to management as the wage premium the manager earns because of his/her supervising role. We adopt an approach based on what if questions and estimate the premium at different quantiles of the distribution of wages for 26 European economies. To ease comparisons we...

We define the wage premium to supervision (WPS) as the extra wage that supervisors earn relative to their subordinates, and estimate it at different quantiles of wage distribution for 26 European economies, comparatively focusing on the UK. We find that, by compensating supervisory positions...