Maximum duration of fixed-term contracts

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	0 = 10 years or more/no limit 1 = less than 1 year normalised scale ranging from 0 to 1
Technical name	labor_max_fx_dur
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Maximum duration of fixed-term contracts
Related indicators	Dismissing costs for part-time workers is proportional Fixed-term contracts are allowed only for limited duration Part-time workers have the right to equal treatment Fixed-term workers have the right to equal treatment Agency work is prohibited or strictly controlled Agency workers have the right to equal treatment

This CBR-LRI indicator measures the maximum cumulative duration of fixed-term contracts permitted by law before the employment is deemed to be permanent.

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 of the indicator was normalised so that "0" corresponds to the 10 years or more or no limit and "1" to less than 1 year. For country-specific information see Adams, Bishop and Deakin (2016).

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):

• Jean-Yves Gerlitz
• Andrea Schäfer

Data release:

Revisions:

Sources

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