Dismissing costs for part-time workers is proportional

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	0 = proportionate rights in respect of dismissal protection do not exist 1 = part-time workers enjoy proportionate in respect of dismissal protection quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of the law
Technical name	labor_pt_dis_cost
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Dismissing costs for part-time workers is proportional
Related indicators	Part-time workers have the right to equal treatment Fixed-term contracts are allowed only for limited duration Fixed-term workers have the right to equal treatment Maximum duration of fixed-term contracts Agency work is prohibited or strictly controlled Agency workers have the right to equal treatment

This CBR-LRI indicator measures if as a matter of law part-time workers enjoy proportionate rights to full-time workers in respect of dismissal protection (notice periods, severance pay and unjust dismissal protection).

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 ranges from "0" to "1" where "0" corresponds to the nonexistence of proportionate rights in respect of dismissal protection and "1" to part-time workers enjoying proportionate in respect of dismissal protection. 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

Data release:

Revisions:

Sources

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