Privileging function
| Quick info | |
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| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Metric |
| Value labels | 0 to 1. High scores reflect a high level of norm-related privileging.
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| Technical name | labor_priv_func |
| Category | Labour and labour market |
| Label | Privileging function |
| Related indicators | |
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. It is a form of legal segmentation.
Coding rules
The seven indicators are the base for the calculation of the index. 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 dimension selectivity showed empirical maxima below ‘1’ over the period of 43 years. We therefore normalised their scales, 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.
- 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
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
Misc
Project manager(s):- Andrea Schäfer
- Jean-Yves Gerlitz
Sources
- Own coding (WoL; Dingeldey, Irene, Heiner Fechner, Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Jenny Hahs, and Ulrich Mückenberger)
- Deakin, Simon, John Armour, and Mathias Siems. 2017. "CBR Leximetric Datasets [updated] [Dataset]". https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.9130
