Right to unionisation

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	Not applicable
Technical name	labor_union
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Right to Unionisation
Related indicators	Right to collective bargaining Duty to bargain Extension of collective agreements Closed shops Codetermination board membership Codetermination and information/consultation of workers

This CBR-LRI indicator measures whethers the legal system recognises or grants the right to form unions or not.

Equals 1 if a right to form trade unions is expressly granted by the constitution. Equals 0.67 if trade unions are described in the constitution as a matter of public policy or public interest. Equals 0.33 if trade unions are otherwise mentioned in the constitution or there is a reference to freedom of association which encompasses trade unions. Equals 0 otherwise. Scope for further gradations between 0 and 1 to reflect changes in the strength of the law.

• 1 = the constitution recognises and is granting a right to form trade unions

• 0.67 = the constitution is describing trade unions as a matter of public policy or public interest

• 0.33 = the constitution is recognising trade unions otherwise or there is a reference to freedom of association

• 0 = neither of the above

quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of law

Coding rules

The CBR-LRI is a leximetric dataset on employment protection. It quantifies the strength of protection expressed in labour law and functional equivalents such as administrative regulation and collective agreements (see Adams et al. 2017). The scale ranges from "0" to "1" where "0" corresponds to the legal system do not recognise a right to form unions and "1" to the legal system is granting the right to form unions. For country-specific information see Adams, Bishop and Deakin (2016). 1 = the constitution recognises and is granting a right to form trade unions</li></ul> 0.67 = the constitution is describing trade unions as a matter of public policy or public interest 0.33 = the constitution is recognising trade unions otherwise or there is a reference to freedom of association 0 = neither of the above quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of law

Bibliographic info

Citation: Adams, Zoe, Parisa Bastani, Louise Bishop, and Simon Deakin. 2017. "The CBR-LRI Dataset: Methods, Properties and Potential of Leximetric Coding of Labour Law." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 33 (1): 59–91.http://kluwerlawonline.com/abstract.php?area=Journals&id=IJCL2017004

Related publications:

• Adams, Zoe, Louise Bishop, and Simon Deakin. 2016. CBR Labour Regulation Index (Dataset of 117 Countries). Cambridge: Centre for Business Research. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/263766/CBR_LRI_Dataset_Codebook_Methodology_2017_pdf.pdf?sequence=16&isAllowed=y
• Deakin, Simon, Jonas Malmberg, and Prabirjit Sarkar. 2014. "How do labour laws affect unemployment and the labour share of national income? The experience of six OECD countries, 1970-2010". International Labour Review 153 (1): 1-27. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1564-913X.2014.00195.x

Misc

Project manager(s): Karolin Meyer, Jean-Yves Gerlitz

Data release: Version 0.001: Initial release Version 0.002: Updated with data from CBR-LRI 2023, V2*

Revisions: No revisions yet

Sources

Deakin, Simon, John Armour, and Mathias Siems. 2017. "CBR Leximetric Datasets [updated] [Dataset]". https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.9130