Right to industrial action

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	1 = the constitution grants the right to industrial action 0.67 = the constitution describes strikes as a matter of public policy or public interest 0.33 = the constitution recognises strikes otherwise then above 0 = otherwise quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of law
Technical name	labor_right_indact
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Right to industrial action
Related indicators	Political industrial action Secondary industrial action Lockouts Unofficial industrial action Waiting period prior to industrial action Peace obligation Compulsory conciliation or arbitration Replacement of striking workers

This CBR-LRI indicator measures whethers the legal system recognises and protects the right to industrial action (i.e. strike, go-slow or work-to-rule).

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 do recognise a different regulation and "1" to the legal system is granting the right to industrial action. 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