Employing workers, difficulty of hiring index - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators

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The difficulty of hiring index measures (i) whether fixed term contracts are prohibited for permanent tasks; (ii) the maximum cumulative duration of fixed term contracts; and (iii) the ratio of the minimum wage for a trainee or first time employee to the average value added per worker. An economy is assigned a score of 1 if fixed term contracts are prohibited for permanent tasks and a score of 0 if they can be used for any task. A score of 1 is assigned if the maximum cumulative duration of fixed term contracts is less than 3 years; 0.5 if it is 3 years or more but less than 5 years; and 0 if fixed term contracts can last 5 years or more. Finally, a score of 1 is assigned if the ratio of the minimum wage to the average value added per worker is 0.75 or more; 0.67 for a ratio of 0.50 or more but less than 0.75; 0.33 for a ratio of 0.25 or more but less than 0.50; and 0 for a ratio of less than 0.25. For more information, visit http://www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/. Source: World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/).

Rank	Country	Value
Employing workers, difficulty of hiring index - Doing business - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2009)
1	Morocco	100
2	Niger	100
3	Tanzania	100
4	Madagascar	89
5	Republic of the Congo	78
6	Senegal	72
7	Angola	67
8	Guinea-Bissau	67
9	Mozambique	67
10	Djibouti	67
11	Equatorial Guinea	67
12	Central African Republic	61
13	Togo	61
14	Mauritania	56
15	South Africa	56
16	Sao Tome and Principe	50
17	Democratic Republic of the Congo	50
18	Seychelles	44
19	Algeria	44
20	Rwanda	44
21	Malawi	44
22	North Africa	43
23	Benin	39
24	Comoros	39
25	Sudan	39
26	Chad	39
27	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria	38.36
28	Africa	38.31
29	Sub-Saharan Africa	37.91
30	Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa	37.52
31	Sierra Leone	33
32	Burkina Faso	33
33	Cape Verde	33
34	Ethiopia	33
35	Guinea	33
36	Ivory Coast	33
37	Mali	33
38	Cameroon	28
39	Tunisia	28
40	Liberia	22
41	Kenya	22
42	Lesotho	22
43	Zambia	22
44	Gabon	17
45	Ghana	11
46	Swaziland	11
47	Eritrea	0
48	Egypt	0
49	Botswana	0
50	Burundi	0
51	Mauritius	0
52	Gambia	0
53	Uganda	0
54	Namibia	0
55	Nigeria	0
56	Zimbabwe	0

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