Rigidity of employment index (0=less rigid to 100=more rigid) - Business environment - Private Sector & Trade - World Development Indicators

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The rigidity of employment index measures the regulation of employment, specifically the hiring and firing of workers and the rigidity of working hours. This index is the average of three subindexes: a difficulty of hiring index, a rigidity of hours index, and a difficulty of firing index. The index ranges from 0 to 100, with higher values indicating more rigid regulations.

Rank	Country	Value
Rigidity of employment index (0=less rigid to 100=more rigid) - Business environment - Private Sector & Trade - World Development Indicators (2009)
1	Bolivia	77
2	Venezuela	69
3	Niger	68
4	Angola	66
5	Panama	66
6	Equatorial Guinea	66
7	Republic of the Congo	63
8	Democratic Republic of the Congo	63
9	Morocco	60
10	Sao Tome and Principe	59
11	Senegal	59
12	Honduras	57
13	Luxembourg	56
14	Madagascar	56
15	Paraguay	56
16	Togo	54
17	Tanzania	54
18	Slovenia	54
19	Guinea-Bissau	54
20	Gabon	52
21	France	52
22	Estonia	51
23	Central African Republic	50
24	Greece	50
25	Croatia	50
26	Spain	49
27	Tajikistan	49
28	Brazil	46
29	Nepal	46
30	Cape Verde	46
31	Djibouti	46
32	Romania	46
33	Norway	44
34	Portugal	43
35	Pakistan	43
36	Latvia	43
37	Netherlands	42
38	Germany	42
39	Algeria	41
40	Sierra Leone	41
41	Mexico	41
42	Moldova	41
43	Finland	41
44	Tunisia	40
45	Benin	40
46	Indonesia	40
47	Comoros	40
48	Mozambique	40
49	Costa Rica	39
50	Peru	39
51	Cameroon	39
52	Mauritania	39
53	South Korea	38
54	North Korea	38
55	Sweden	38
56	Lithuania	38
57	Ecuador	38
58	Russia	38
59	Italy	38
60	Euro area	37.60
61	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	36.69
62	Sudan	36
63	Seychelles	36
64	Cambodia	36
65	Serbia	35
66	South Africa	35
67	Turkey	35
68	Sub-Saharan Africa	34.73
69	Least developed countries: UN classification	33.20
70	Low income	33.17
71	Zimbabwe	33
72	Bosnia and Herzegovina	33
73	Chad	33
74	Ivory Coast	33
75	Middle East & North Africa	32.58
76	Uzbekistan	32
77	Timor-Leste	32
78	Mali	31
79	China	31
80	West Bank and Gaza	31
81	Ukraine	31
82	India	30
83	Philippines	29
84	Iran	29
85	Low & middle income	28.76
86	Latin America & Caribbean	28.68
87	Ethiopia	28
88	Burundi	28
89	Bangladesh	28
90	Guatemala	28
91	Lower middle income	27.80
92	Gambia	27
93	Liberia	27
94	Egypt	27
95	Ghana	27
96	Nicaragua	27
97	Middle income	26.93
98	Europe & Central Asia	26.57
99	South Asia	26.50
100	High income: OECD	26.33
101	Upper middle income	25.81
102	Albania	25
103	Lebanon	25
104	Poland	25
105	Austria	24
106	Guinea	24
107	Cyprus	24
108	Iraq	24
109	El Salvador	24
110	Jordan	24
111	Yemen	24
112	High income	23.81
113	Slovakia	22
114	Hungary	22
115	Malawi	21
116	Argentina	21
117	Armenia	21
118	Suriname	21
119	Burkina Faso	21
120	Iceland	21
121	Zambia	21
122	Vietnam	21
123	Dominican Republic	21
124	High income: nonOECD	20.40
125	Eritrea	20
126	Sri Lanka	20
127	Afghanistan	20
128	Syria	20
129	Laos	20
130	Bulgaria	19
131	Guyana	19
132	Uruguay	18
133	Maldives	18
134	Kyrgyzstan	18
135	Chile	18
136	Mauritius	18
137	Kiribati	17
138	Kenya	17
139	Israel	17
140	Kazakhstan	17
141	Mongolia	17
142	Belgium	17
143	East Asia & Pacific	16.60
144	Japan	16
145	Grenada	15
146	Dominica	15
147	Puerto Rico	14
148	Lesotho	14
149	Solomon Islands	14
150	Vanuatu	14
151	Macedonia	14
152	Montenegro	13
153	Bahamas	13
154	Qatar	13
155	Saudi Arabia	13
156	Botswana	13
157	Namibia	13
158	Oman	13
159	Belarus	11
160	Thailand	11
161	Czech Republic	11
162	Azerbaijan	10
163	Kosovo	10
164	Malaysia	10
165	Colombia	10
166	Swaziland	10
167	Bahrain	10
168	Ireland	10
169	United Kingdom	10
170	Fiji	10
171	Antigua and Barbuda	10
172	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	10
173	Haiti	10
174	Samoa	8
175	Tonga	7
176	Trinidad and Tobago	7
177	Nigeria	7
178	United Arab Emirates	7
179	Switzerland	7
180	Bhutan	7
181	Georgia	7
182	Belize	7
183	Micronesia	7
184	Rwanda	7
185	St. Kitts and Nevis	7
186	Denmark	7
187	New Zealand	7
188	Canada	4
189	Jamaica	4
190	Papua New Guinea	4
191	Palau	4
192	Australia	0
193	Brunei Darussalam	0
194	St. Lucia	0
195	Kuwait	0
196	Singapore	0
197	Marshall Islands	0
198	Hong Kong	0
199	Uganda	0
200	United States	0

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Rigidity of employment index (0=less rigid to 100=more rigid) - Business environment - Private Sector & Trade - World Development Indicators

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