Right to unionisation
| Quick info | |
|---|---|
| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Metric |
| Value labels | Not applicable |
| Technical name | labor_union |
| Category | Labour and labour market |
| Label | Right to Unionisation |
| Related indicators | |
This CBR-LRI indicator measures whethers the legal system recognises or grants the right to form unions or not.
- 1 = the constitution recognises and is granting a right to form trade unions
- 0.67 = the constitution is describing trade unions as a matter of public policy or public interest
- 0.33 = the constitution is recognising trade unions otherwise or there is a reference to freedom of association
- 0 = neither of the above
quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of law
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 do not recognise a right to form unions and "1" to the legal system is granting the right to form unions. For country-specific information see Adams, Bishop and Deakin (2016). 1 = the constitution recognises and is granting a right to form trade unions</li></ul> 0.67 = the constitution is describing trade unions as a matter of public policy or public interest 0.33 = the constitution is recognising trade unions otherwise or there is a reference to freedom of association 0 = neither of the above quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of law
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
- Version 0.002: 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
