Law imposes substantive constraints on dismissal

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	0 = employment is at will (i.e., no cause dismissal is normally permissible) 0.33 = dismissal is permissible if it is ‘just’ or ‘fair’ as defined by case law 0.67 = dismissal is lawful according to a wider range of legitimate reasons (misconduct, lack of capability, redundancy, etc.) 1 = dismissal is only permissible for serious misconduct or fault of the employee quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of the law
Technical name	labor_sub_dis_con
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Law imposes substantive constraints on dismissal
Related indicators	Legally mandated notice period Legally mandated redundancy compensation Minimum qualifying period for unjust dismissal Law imposes procedural constraints on dismissal

This CBR-LRI indicator measures to what extent dismissal is only permissible for substantive reasons such as serious misconduct or fault of the employee.

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 permissable dismissals wihout a cause and "1" to dismissals being only permissable for serious misconduct or fault of the emnployee, and gradations between the two values reflect gradtions in the strength of law. 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):

• Jean-Yves Gerlitz
• Andrea Schäfer

Data release:

Revisions:

Sources

• Deakin, Simon, John Armour, and Mathias Siems. 2017. "CBR Leximetric Datasets [updated] [Dataset]". https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.9130