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Policy targets are used to improve the implementation of domestic and international actions, in a national context and in international frameworks. But how can domestic and international experience be useful for climate policy? Case studies point to the value of defining policy targets more broadly than final outcomes, which in the case of climate policy are CO2 emission reductions. There is a need ...
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Climate Policy
9 (2009), 5, S. 465-480
| Sarah Lester, Karsten Neuhoff
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This article surveys the experience of conditionality provisions applied by the World Bank, the IMF, bilateral donors, and the European Union's accession process. Ownership is essential for effective cooperation and requires domestic climate policies to be country-driven and decision-making to be equitable. Bilateral cooperation allows for a direct exchange of expertise and long-term relationships. ...
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Climate Policy
9 (2009), 5, S. 481-494
| Maike Sippel, Karsten Neuhoff
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Flow velocity is generally presumed to influence flood damage. However, this influence is hardly quantified and virtually no damage models take it into account. Therefore, the influences of flow velocity, water depth and combinations of these two impact parameters on various types of flood damage were investigated in five communities affected by the Elbe catchment flood in Germany in 2002. 2-D hydraulic ...
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Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
9 (2009), 5, S. 1679-1692
| Heidi Kreibich, Klaus Piroth, Isabell Seifert, Holger Maiwald, Uwe Kunert, Jochen Schwarz, Bruno Merz, Annegret H. Thieken
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This paper empirically examines social network explanations for migration decisions in the context of German reunification. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we first show that the presence of a family in West Germany is an important predictor for the migration hazard rate of East Germans. We then explore whether pre-migration networks have a discernible impact on the economic ...
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Economics of Transition
17 (2009), 4, S. 739-767
| Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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For a long time, the social policy discussion in Germany has been heavily dominated by income inequality and poverty risk rates, while at the same time the analysis of personal wealth distribution was underdeveloped, last but not least due to a severe lack of appropriate data. Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper analyzes individual level information ...
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Berliner Journal für Soziologie
19 (2009), 4, S. 577-600
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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This article regards the incidence of in-work poverty and how it is reduced by the payment of social transfers in 20 European countries. It combines a micro- and a macro-level perspective in two-level models. The basis for the analysis is micro-data from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2005 and macro-data from sources such as the OECD and Eurostat. The broad comparative ...
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European Sociological Review
25 (2009), 4, S. 489-504
| Henning Lohmann
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We measure trust and trustworthiness in British society with a newly designed experiment using real monetary rewards and a sample of the British population. The study also asks the typical survey question that aims to measure trust, showing that it does not predict 'trust' as measured in the experiment. Overall, about 40% of people were willing to trust a stranger in our experiment, and their trust ...
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society / Series A
172 (2009), 4, S. 749-769
| John Ermisch, Diego Gambetta, Heather Laurie, Thomas Siedler, S. C. Noah Uhrig
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Taller populations are typically richer populations, and taller individuals live longer and earn more. In consequence, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate the childhood determinants of population adult height, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. Across a range of European countries and the United ...
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Demography
46 (2009), 4, S. 647-669
| Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton, Climent Quintana-Domeque
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Mit der Unternehmensteuerreform 2008 wird es Personenunternehmen ermöglicht, Gewinne, die im Unternehmen verbleiben sollen, ermäßigt zu besteuern. Werden diese ermäßigt versteuerten Gewinne zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt entnommen, erfolgt eine Nachbelastung in Höhe von 25 % zzgl. Solidaritätszuschlag. Einen kurzfristigen steuerlichen Anreiz zur ermäßigt besteuerten Gewinneinbehaltung gibt es somit auf ...
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Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis
61 (2009), 4, S. 422-437
| Michael Broer, Nadja Dwenger
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The German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) has been very successful in promoting the deployment of renewable electricity technologies in Germany. The increasing share of EEG power in the generation portfolio, increasing amounts of fluctuating power generation, and the growing European integration of power markets governed by competition calls for a re-design of the EEG. In particular, a more efficient system ...
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Energy Policy
37 (2009), 4, S. 1289-1297
| Ole Langniß, Jochen Diekmann, Ulrike Lehr