Strictness of employment protection legislation: overall
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- OECD
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Publication Date
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13 Apr 2010
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Data are:
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Annual
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DOI
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10.1787/data-00317-en
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Years covered
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1985-2009
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Abstract
This dataset contains information on the stringency of national legislation on employment protection for all jobs. Synthetic indicators are available for collective dismissals, difficulty of dismissal, fixed term contracts, notice and severance pay for no-fault individual dismissals, overall EPL, overall strictness of protection against dismissals, overall strictness of regulation, regular procedural inconveniences and temporary work agencies. Data range from 0 to 6 with higher scores representing stricter regulation and are available from 1985 onwards.
Keywords: regulation scores, dismissals, national legislation, labour market, work agencies, procedural inconveniences, statistics, employment, strictness of protection, collective dismissals, strictiness of regulation, employment protection, EPL
