Maximum daily working time

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	0 = 18 hours or more 1 = 8 hours or less normalised scale ranging from 0 to 1
Technical name	labor_workday
Category	[[Labour and labour market]]
Label	Maximum daily working time
Related indicators	Annual leave entitlements Public holiday entitlements Overtime premia Weekend working Limits to overtime working Duration of the normal working week

This CBR-LRI indicator measures the maximum number of permitted working hours in a day, taking account of rules governing rest breaks and maximum daily working time limits.

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 18 hours or more and "1" to 8 hours or less. 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:

• Version 0.001: Initial release

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