Legally mandated notice period increases with seniority

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	1 = the law provides increasing steps for more then 10 years 0.75 = the law provides increasing steps from 5 up to 10 years 0.5 = the law provides increasing steps from 2 and up to 5 years 0.25 = the law provides increasing steps for up to 2 years 0 = the law do not provides increasing steps / notice periods quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of the law
Technical name	labor_notped_sen
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Legally mandated notice period increases with seniority
Related indicators	Legally mandated severance compensation increases with seniority Seniority is a decisive redundancy selection criterion

This WoL indicator measures if notice periods for employees increases 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 periods for employees increasing with seniority and "1" to the law do recognise notice periods for employees increasing with seniority in steps for more than 10 years. 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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Own coding.