Privileging function

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	0 to 1. 1 is the maximum value, it reflects the highest possible level of norm-related privileging.
Technical name	labor_priv_func
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Privileging function
Related indicators	Type of employment law Standard-setting function Equalising function Legally mandated notice period increases with seniority Legally mandated severance compensation increases with seniority Seniority is a decisive redundancy selection criterion Priority in re-employment Dismissal protection depends on size of enterprise The law determines the legal status of the worker Minimum qualifying period for unjust dismissal

The privileging function refers to legal norms that actively promote specific parts of the labour force. These norms link employment protection to specific conditions that are covered by the two dimensions seniority and selectivity and measured by seven indicators. This function measures the level of norm-related privileging in individual labour law and is a form of legal segmentation.

Coding rules

The index calculation relies on three CBR-LRI and four indicators created by the project team (A03): Legally mandated notice period increases with seniority, Legally mandated severance compensation increases with seniority, Seniority is a decisive redundancy selection criterion, Priority in re-employment, Dismissal protection depends on size of enterprise, The law determines the legal status of the worker and Minimum qualifying period for unjust dismissal. We calculated the mean of all indicators of one dimension, and again the mean of all dimensions of the function, thereby assigning equal weights to each dimension, and thus equal weights to all indicators of one dimension. We normalised the scale of the dimension selectivity, that is, we divided it by it's empirical maximum.

Bibliographic info

Citation:

• Dingeldey, Irene, Heiner Fechner, Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Jenny Hahs, and Ulrich Mückenberger. 2020. "Measuring Legal Segmentation in Labour Law." SOCIUM SFB 1342 Working Papers No. 5, Bremen: SOCIUM, University of Bremen. https://www.socialpolicydynamics.de/f/90e3891ffd.pdf
• Dingeldey, Irene, Heiner Fechner, Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Jenny Hahs, and Ulrich Mückenberger. FORTHCOMING. "Worlds of Labour: Introducing the SPE Typology as a Measure of Legal Segmentation in Labour Law." Manuscript under review at the Industrial Law Journal.

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

Misc

Project manager(s):

• Andrea Schäfer

Data release:

Revisions:

Sources

• Own coding