Codetermination and information/consultation of workers

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	1 = the law recognise works councils or enterprise committees the right to co-decision making 0.67 = the law provides works councils or enterprise committees under certain conditions but not the power of co-decision making 0.5 = the law provides works councils or enterprise committees unless the employer can point to alternative or pre-existing alternative arrangements 0.33 = the law provides information and consultation of workers or representatives but no obligation to maintain a works council or enterprise committee 0 = otherwise quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of law
Technical name	labor_codeterm_info
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Codetermination and information/consultation of workers
Related indicators	Right to collective bargaining Right to unionisation Extension of collective agreements Closed shops Duty to bargain Codetermination board membership

This CBR-LRI indicator measures whethers the legal system provides codetermination or consultation of workers or works councils or not.

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 legal system recognise other regulations and "1" to the legal system obligates the power of co-decision making of works councils or enterprise committees. 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): Karolin Meyer, 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