Employees enjoy right to a general minimum wage

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Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	1 = the law foresees an universal minimum wage 0.67 = the law foresees differential minimum wages for sectors or professions without an universal wage floor 0.33 = the law provides for the possibility to introduce minimum wages by sector, profession, region or otherwise 0 = there is no minimum wage quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of the law
Technical name	labor_minwage
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Employees enjoy right to a general minimum wage
Related indicators	Law provides regulation of positive discrimination of women Law provides for equal access to employment for men and women Law provides regulation of positive discrimination of ethnicity/race Law provides for equal access to employment concerning ethnicity/race Law provides for equal working conditions for men and women Law provides for equal working conditions concerning ethnicity/race Equal pay for equal work is legally provided for

This WoL indicator measures if the law is guaranteeing a minimum wage for all employees or not.

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 no minimum wage regulation exists and "1" to the law is foreseeing a minimum wage for all employees. 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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