Standard-setting 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 general worker protection.
Technical name	labor_stand_sett_func
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Standard-setting function
Related indicators	Privileging function Equalising function Annual leave entitlements Public holiday entitlements Overtime premia Weekend working Limits to overtime working Duration of the normal working week Maximum daily working time Legally mandated notice period Legally mandated redundancy compensation Law imposes procedural constraints on dismissal Reinstatement normal remedy for unfair dismissal Third body notification of dismissal

The standard-setting function measures the level of general worker protection in individual labour law. The function refers to active norm-setting that defines general standards of legal protection. It consists of two relevant dimensions, working time restriction and dismissal protection, that are measured by 13 indicators based on legal norms.

Coding rules

The index calculation solely relies on 13 CBR-LRI indicators: Annual leave entitlements, Public holiday entitlements, Overtime premia, Weekend working, Limits to overtime working, Duration of the normal working week, Maximum daily working time, Legally mandated notice period, Legally mandated redundancy compensation, Law imposes procedural constraints on dismissal, Law imposes substantive constraints on dismissal, Reinstatement normal remedy for unfair dismissal and Third body notification of 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. The scales of the dimensions working time and dismissal protection are normalised, that is, we divided them by their 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

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Sources

• Own coding