Law provides regulation of positive discrimination of ethnicity/race

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	1 = the law prescribes positive discrimination 0.5 = the law allows for positive discrimination 0 = the law does not allow for positive discrimination quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of the law
Technical name	labor_posdis_ethn
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Law provides regulation of positive discrimination of ethnicity/race
Related indicators	Law provides regulation of positive discrimination of women Law provides for equal access to employment for men and women Law provides for equal access to employment concerning ethnicity/race Equal pay for equal work is legally provided for Law provides for equal working conditions for men and women Law provides for equal working conditions concerning ethnicity/race Employees enjoy right to a general minimum wage

This WoL indicator measures if the law allows positive discrimination to overcome labour discrimination of groups in terms of ethnicity/race 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 guarantee of positive discrimination concerning ethnicity/race exists and "1" to the law is prescribing positive discrimination concerning ethnicity/race to overcome labour discrimination. 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, Andrea Schäfer

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