Weekend working

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	0 = there is no premium 0.5 = premium is time and half 1 = premium is double time/weekend working is strictly controlled or prohibited quasi-metric scale; further gradations between 0 and 1 reflect changes in the strength of the law
Technical name	labor_weekend_work
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Weekend working
Related indicators	Annual leave entitlements Public holiday entitlements Overtime premia Limits to overtime working Duration of the normal working week Maximum daily working time

This CBR-LRI indicator measures the normal premium for weekend working set by law or by collective agreements which are generally applicable. The same score is given for laws and for collective agreements which are de facto binding on most of the workforce (as in the case of systems which have extension legislation for collective agreements).

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 nonexistence of a premium and "1" to a premium that is double time or a strict control or prohibition of weekend work. 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):

• Jean-Yves Gerlitz
• Andrea Schäfer

Data release:

Revisions:

Sources

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