Drivers and effects of labour market reforms: Evidence from a novel policy compendium

Table 1 Descriptive statistics from the policy compendium

		Developed Economies and the EU	Central and South-Eastern Europe and the CIS	East Asia	South Asia	South-East Asia and the pacific	Latin America and the Caribbean	North Africa and the Middle East	Sub-Saharan Africa
	Total reforms	451	50	8	13	29	34	13	44
Direction	Increasing	153	27	5	10	23	27	11	31
Direction	Decreasing	298	23	3	3	6	7	2	13
Coverage	Complete	281	40	6	11	26	32	9	39
Coverage	Two-tier	170	10	2	2	3	2	4	5
Temporal horizon	Permanent	408	48	7	13	27	31	11	44
Temporal horizon	Temporary	43	2	1	0	2	3	2	0
Domain	Collective bargaining	85	14	4	7	17	19	7	19
	Collective dismissals	40	6	1	1	1	0	1	2
	Permanent contracts	137	15	2	2	6	11	2	17
	Temporary contracts	60	10	1	2	3	3	1	5
	Other forms of employment	56	2	0	0	0	1	1	1
	Working hours	73	3	0	1	2	0	1	0
Number of countries		37	14	3	5	9	15	6	21

Source: Authors’ calculations based on the ILO EPLex and NATLEX databases, EU Commission LABREF and fRDB-IZA database of social reforms