We investigate the impact of employment protection on firms' credit access by looking at both credit obtained from banks and firms' decision to apply for a loan. We find that greater flexibility in structuring the employees' working hours and in dismissing employees increases the probability...

Damit lautet die präzise Fragestellung der folgenden Überlegungen: Wie müsstenwissenschaftlich fundierte Argumente beschaffen sein, um in diesem Prozessselbstdurchsetzend zu werden? Wie könnten diskursive Standards aussehen, die den Prozessder öffentlichen Meinungsbildung von Denkblockaden...

This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other...