Employing Workers

This topic measures the flexibility of labor regulations. It examines the difficulty of hiring a new worker, rigidity of rules on expanding or contracting working hours, the non-salary costs of hiring a worker, and the difficulties and costs involved in dismissing a redundant worker.

The table below shows the main indicators. They include:

• difficulty of hiring a new worker (Difficulty of Hiring Index),
• restrictions on expanding or contracting the number of working hours (Rigidity of Hours Index),
• difficulty and expense of dismissing a redundant worker (Difficulty of Firing),
• an average of the three indices (Rigidity of Employment Index), and
• cost of a redundant worker, expressed in weeks of wages (Firing Costs).

Higher values in the table indicate more rigid regulations.
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