Duty to bargain

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	1 = employers are obliged by the legislation to bargain and/or to reach an agreement with unions, works councils or other organizations of workers 0 = employers can legally refuse to bargain with workers quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of law
Technical name	labor_duty_barg
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Duty to bargain
Related indicators	Right to collective bargaining Right to unionisation Extension of collective agreements Closed shops Codetermination board membership Codetermination and information/consultation of workers

This CBR-LRI indicator measures whethers the legal system obliges employers to bargain or not.

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 the legal system allows employers to lawfully refuse bargaining with workers and "1" to the legal system obliged employers to bargain. 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): Karolin Meyer, Jean-Yves Gerlitz

Data release:

• Version 0.001: Initial release

Revisions: No revisions yet

Sources

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