Legally mandated severance compensation increases with seniority

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	1 = the law provides increasing steps each year of service 0.67 = the law provides increasing steps for each year of service but are capped 0.33 = the law provides increasing steps only once 0 = the law do not provides increasing steps / equal for all workers concerned quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of the law
Technical name	labor_redcomp_sen
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Legally mandated severance compensation increases with seniority
Related indicators	Legally mandated notice period increases with seniority Seniority is a decisive redundancy selection criterion

This WoL indicator measures if severance payments for employees increase with seniority by law.

Coding rules

The WoL is a leximetric dataset on individual employment protection. It quantifies the strength of the standard-setting, privileging, and equalising function of individual labour law (see Dingeldey et al. 2020). The scale ranges from "0" to "1" where "0" corresponds to the law do not recognise notice severance payments for employees increasing with seniority and "1" to the law do recognise severance payments for employees increasing with seniority in steps for each year of service. For country-specific information see WoL documentation (forthcoming).

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

Related publications:

• Mückenberger, Ulrich, 1985. "Die Krise des Normalarbeitsverhältnisses - Hat das Arbeitsrecht noch Zukunft?" Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 31: 415-434; 457-475
• Mückenberger, Ulrich, and Simon Deakin. 1989. "From Deregulation to a European Floor of Rights: Labour Law, Flexibilisation and the European Single Market." Zeitschrift Für Ausländisches Und Internationales Arbeits- Und Sozialrecht 3: 153–207.

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Project manager(s): Karolin Meyer, Jean-Yves Gerlitz

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