Strictness of employment protection – individual and collective dismissals (regular contracts)

Data - OECD

Author

Info

source	dataset	Title	Updated
oecd	EPL_OV	Strictness of employment protection – individual and collective dismissals (regular contracts)	2026-08-02

Data on employment

source	dataset	Title	Updated
bls	jt	NA	NA
bls	la	NA	NA
bls	ln	NA	NA
eurostat	nama_10_a10_e	Employment by A*10 industry breakdowns	2026-08-13
eurostat	nama_10_a64_e	National accounts employment data by industry (up to NACE A*64)	2026-08-13
eurostat	namq_10_a10_e	Employment A*10 industry breakdowns	2026-08-13
eurostat	une_rt_m	Unemployment by sex and age – monthly data	2026-08-13
oecd	ALFS_EMP	Employment by activities and status (ALFS)	2026-08-02
oecd	EPL_T	Strictness of employment protection – temporary contracts	2026-08-02
oecd	LFS_SEXAGE_I_R	LFS by sex and age - indicators	2026-08-02
oecd	STLABOUR	Short-Term Labour Market Statistics	2026-08-02

LAST_DOWNLOAD

Code

tibble(LAST_DOWNLOAD = as.Date(file.info("~/iCloud/website/data/oecd/EPL_OV.RData")$mtime)) |>
  print_table_conditional()

LAST_DOWNLOAD
NA

LAST_COMPILE

LAST_COMPILE
2026-08-15

Last

obsTime	Nobs
2019	172

SERIES

Code

EPL_OV |>
  left_join(EPL_OV_var$SERIES, by = "SERIES") |>
  group_by(SERIES, Series) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n()) |>
  arrange(-Nobs) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) print_table(.) else .}

SERIES	Series	Nobs
EPRC_V1	Version 1 (1985-2019)	1129
EPRC_V2	Version 2 (1998-2019)	806
EPRC_V3	Version 3 (2008-2019)	526
EPRC_V4	Version 4 (2013-2019)	293

COUNTRY

Code

EPL_OV |>
  left_join(EPL_OV_var$COUNTRY, by = "COUNTRY") |>
  group_by(COUNTRY, Country) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n()) |>
  arrange(-Nobs) |>
  mutate(Flag = gsub(" ", "-", str_to_lower(gsub(" ", "-", Country))),
         Flag = paste0('<img src="../../icon/flag/vsmall/', Flag, '.png" alt="Flag">')) |>
  select(Flag, everything()) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F, escape = F) else .}

France, Germany, Italy

Code

EPL_OV |>
  filter(SERIES == "EPRC_V1",
         COUNTRY %in% c("FRA", "ITA", "DEU")) |>
  left_join(EPL_OV_var$COUNTRY, by = "COUNTRY") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  left_join(colors, by = c("Country" = "country")) |>
  rename(Location = Country) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = obsValue, color = color)) + 
  scale_color_identity() + add_3flags + theme_minimal() +
  xlab("") + ylab("Strictness of employment protection") +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1920, 2100, 2) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = seq(0, 6, .1))

Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Code

EPL_OV |>
  filter(SERIES == "EPRC_V1",
         COUNTRY %in% c("AUS", "GBR", "USA")) |>
  left_join(EPL_OV_var$COUNTRY, by = "COUNTRY") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  left_join(colors, by = c("Country" = "country")) |>
  rename(Location = Country) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = obsValue, color = color)) + 
  scale_color_identity() + add_3flags + theme_minimal() +
  xlab("") + ylab("Strictness of employment protection") +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1920, 2100, 2) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = seq(0, 5, 0.2))

Australia, United Kingdom, United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain

Code

EPL_OV |>
  filter(SERIES == "EPRC_V1",
         COUNTRY %in% c("AUS", "GBR", "USA", "FRA", "ITA", "DEU", "ESP")) |>
  left_join(EPL_OV_var$COUNTRY, by = "COUNTRY") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  left_join(colors, by = c("Country" = "country")) |>
  rename(Location = Country) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = obsValue, color = color)) + 
  scale_color_identity() + add_7flags + theme_minimal() +
  xlab("") + ylab("Strictness of employment protection") +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1920, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = seq(0, 5, 0.2))