TY - RPRT A1 - Creutzig, Felix A1 - Flachsland, Christian A1 - McGlynn, Emily T1 - CITIES: Car industry, road transport and an international emission trading scheme - policy options. A report commissioned by BMW Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Creutzig, Felix A1 - Flachsland, Christian A1 - McGlynn, Emily A1 - Minx, Jan C. T1 - CITIES: Car Industry, Road Transport and an international Emission Trading Scheme. Policy options Y1 - 2010 N1 - Free online Access / Freier online Zugriff: http://ideas.climatecon.tu-berlin.de/documents/reports/CITIES%20REPORT.pdf ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Hammerschmid, Gerhard A1 - Proeller, Isabella A1 - Geißler, René T1 - Verwaltungsführung heute: Ergebnisse einer Führungskräftebefragung in der deutschen Ministerialverwaltung N2 - Auf Basis einer deutschlandweiten Erhebung auf Bundes- und Länderebene wurden im Zeitraum von Februar bis Juni 2009 erstmalig Erfahrungen der Führungskräfte im Bezug auf Verwaltungsführung und -modernisierung systematisch untersucht. An der vom Institut für den öffentlichen Sektor unterstützten Studie der Hertie School of Governance unter Beteiligung der Universitäten Potsdam und Leipzig beteiligten sich insgesamt 351 Führungskräfte aus allen Länderverwaltungen und der Bundesverwaltung. Die Ergebnisse der Befragung zeigen verschiedene Problemfelder auf. Zum einen werden ein zunehmender Budgetdruck und der demografische Wandel als die zentralen und langfristigen Herausforderungen für die öffentliche Verwaltung gesehen. Zum anderen wird die fehlende Flexibilität als zentrale Schwäche erkannt, die Reformen notwendig macht. Y1 - 2010 N1 - Free online Access / Freier online Zugriff: http://publicgovernance.de/docs/20100923_Verwf_heute.pdf PB - Institut für den öffentlichen Sektor CY - Berlin ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Iacovone, Leonardo A1 - Keller, Wolfgang A1 - Rauch, Ferdinand T1 - Innovation When The Market Is Shrinking: Firm-level Responses To Competition From China N2 - How does trade liberalization that raises a country’s import competition affect the innovative activity of its firms? We exploit the strong growth of Chinese exports resulting from China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 as a competitive shock to, specifically, Mexican manufacturing firms. Innovation is captured through information on the adoption of specific production techniques such as just in time inventory methods, quality control, and job rotation. Our results indicate that China’s rise in global trade did not affect by much Mexico’s rate of innovation, which contrasts with the substantial gains that others have found in the case of bilateral liberalization. At the same time, there is a striking heterogeneity in the responses across firms: productive firms innovate more while less productive firms innovate less. This leads to positive selection in that initial differences in firm performance are sharpened by the advent of new competition. We discuss the implications of these findings for theories of trade and innovation. Y1 - 2010 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Kubisch, Olga T1 - Data Documentation Germany: Documentation for the Human Fertility Base N2 - The Human Fertility Database (HFD) is a joint project of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany and the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) in Vienna, Austria, based at MPIDR. We seek to provide free and user-friendly access to detailed and high-quality data on period and cohort fertility and thus to facilitate research on changes and inter-country differences in fertility in the past and in the modern era. The HFD is entirely based on official vital statistics and places a great emphasis on data checking and documentation and on warranting data comparability across time and countries by means of uniform methodology Y1 - 2010 PB - Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung CY - Rostock ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Perelli-Harris, Brienna A1 - Kubisch, Karolin T1 - Harmonized histories : Manual for the preparation of comparative fertility and union histories T2 - MPIDR Working Paper (No. 11/2010) N2 - This document describes the standardization process of the Harmonized Histories. The Harmonized Histories is a comparative database of rich reproductive and union histories from surveys conducted in a number of countries in Europe. Given that birth and union data has been collected in a number of ways in different surveys, it has been very difficult to conduct cross-national analyses of recent union and fertility behavior over time. A team of researchers called the Nonmarital Childbearing Network has cleaned and standardized the surveys according to guidelines set out in this manual. Currently, the database includes data from the Generations and Gender Surveys (GGSs) in Italy, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Russia; the 2003 Dutch Fertility and Family Survey; and the British Household Panel Survey. Y1 - 2010 N1 - Free online Access / Freier online Zugriff: http://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2010-011.pdf PB - Max-Planck Institut für demografische Forschung CY - Rostock ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Kurban, Dilek A1 - Tsitselikis, Konstantinos T1 - A Tale of Reciprocity: Minority Foundations in Greece and Turkey N2 - The word most frequently uttered by Greece and Turkey with regard to their Muslim1 and non-Muslim minorities, respectively, is most probably ‘reciprocity.’ For more than half a century, in both countries, virtually all administrations,irrespective of their political leanings and ideological base, resorted to the good old ‘reciprocity argument’ to legitimize their laws, policies, and practices restricting the minority rights of Muslim and non-Muslim communities. Both states have for decades justified their policies on the basis of a theory that argues that Article 45 of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne provided the legal basis for reciprocity. Deliberately distorting a crystal-clear provision, which simply confers parallel obligations on Greece and Turkey for the protection of the Muslim and non-Muslim minorities, respectively, both states have for decades held their own citizens hostage, pitting them against each other in the name of defeating the other in foreign policy. Disregarding the objections of international lawyers and institutions that the reciprocity principle does not apply to human rights treaties and that states cannot condition the protection of the fundamental rights of their citizens on the policies of other states, both Greece and Turkey have successfully manipulated their national public opinion into believing in the legitimacy of treating minorities as lesser citizens. This report analyzes the implications of reciprocity policies on the day-to-day lives of Muslim and non-Muslim minorities in Greece and Turkey, specifically their impact on the community foundations2 belonging to these minorities. With a specific focus on the property and self-management issues of Muslim and non-Muslim community foundations in Greece and Turkey, the report situates the issue in its historical context and trace the evolution of the ‘community foundation issue’ from Lausanne to the present day. Drawing similarities and differences between the laws, policies, and practices of Greek and Turkish states vis-à-vis their minority foundations, the report critically assesses the progress made to this day as well as identify the outstanding issues. KW - Minority policies in Turkey and Greece Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-17545 UR - http://www.tesev.org.tr/assets/publications/file/vakiflar-tr-grc-ing.pdf ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Minx, Jan C. A1 - Baiocchi, Giovanni A1 - Wiedmann, Thomas T1 - Understanding Changes in the UK's CO2 Emissions: A Structural Decomposition Approach BT - Report to the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Y1 - 2010 PB - London ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Molina, Ana Cristina A1 - Bussolo, Maurizio A1 - Iacovone, Leonardo T1 - The DR-CAFTA and the extensive margin : a firm-level analysis T2 - World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Y1 - 2010 UR - http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2010/08/27/000158349_20100827150309/Rendered/PDF/WPS5340.pdf VL - 5340 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - SEI, ECI und Cambridge Econometrics, T1 - The Contribution of Products to Meeting UK Climate Change Targets Y1 - 2010 ER -