scholarly journals OECD Employment Protection Legislation Indicators and Reform

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewan McGaughey
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
Business Research ◽  
International Labour Organisation ◽  
Labour Rights ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Labour Organisation

This note sets out remarks for the current functioning and the need for reform of the OECD Employment Protection Legislation indicators. It discusses (1) the conceptual framework, including the methodology, of the OECD EPL Indicators, (2) the substance and coding of the indicators, including significant problems that we can see, and (3) the practical implications which flow from the Indicators as they currently stand. It suggests that convergence with other indicators, particularly those developed by the Cambridge Centre for Business Research, or the International Labour Organisation, is desirable to ensure a common legal and factual basis for assessing the economic impacts of labour rights.

scholarly journals Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Dougherty ◽  
Verónica C. Frisancho Robles ◽  
Kala Krishna
Keyword(s):  
Employment Protection ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Plant Level

Employment Protection Legislation in Haiti

2018 ◽  
pp. 209-221
Author(s):  
Samir Amine ◽  
Wilner Predelus
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Labor Law ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Employment Legislation

The merit of employment regulations in a market economy is often measured by their effectiveness in facilitating job creation without jeopardizing the notion of “decent work,” as defined by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Consequently, the recent literature on employment legislation has extensively focused on the flexibility of the labor market, as a fair middle ground is always necessary to avoid undue distortions that can negatively impact the economy and worker's wellbeing. This chapter analyzes the provisions of the labor law in Haiti and how it affects job security and flexibility to observe a flexible structure that rather benefits employers. Notably, labor law in Haiti may have in fact rendered workers more vulnerable because these labor legislations were enacted on the assumption that employers and workers are on the same footing when it comes to industrial relations, while historic facts do not support such an assumption.

Critiquing the OECD’s Employment Protection Legislation Index for individual dismissals: The importance of procedural requirements

2019 ◽  
pp. 0143831X1985641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Harcourt ◽  
Gregor Gall ◽  
Arjun Sree Raman ◽  
Helen Lam ◽  
Richard Croucher
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Employment Protection Legislation ◽  
Member States ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Principal Method

Key EU agencies have successfully urged member states to scale back employment protection legislation as a solution to unemployment. The economic arguments for this reform are mixed, with recent empirical evidence largely unsupportive. Critics have also raised doubts about the accuracy of the OECD’s Employment Protection Legislation Index, which is the principal method EU agencies use to target so-called high-protection regimes. This article supplements existing criticisms of the OECD index by arguing that it fails to account for procedural requirements in assessing the difficulties and costs of carrying out individual dismissals. Evidence from New Zealand, ostensibly a low-protection country, demonstrates procedural requirements can pose the main impediments to carrying out individual dismissals. This suggests the need for revision of the OECD Employment Protection Legislation Index or the use of other indices instead.

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