Korea vs Uruguay: Strictness of employment protection — Temporary contracts
Korea
2.25 0-6 scale
in 2025
Uruguay
4 0-6 scale
in 2019
Korea rank
1st
Uruguay rank
3rd
Strictness of employment protection — Temporary contracts over time
- Korea
- Uruguay
How they compare
Uruguay currently reports 4 0-6 scale against 2.25 0-6 scale in Korea, a difference of 1.75 0-6 scale.
That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.8 times Korea's.
Across all 6 years both countries report, Uruguay has been ahead every year.
Korea ranks 1st and Uruguay ranks 3rd of 2 groups.
Uruguay has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher strictness of employment protection — temporary contracts, Korea or Uruguay?
- Uruguay, at 4 0-6 scale against 2.25 0-6 scale in Korea as of 2019.
- What is the difference in strictness of employment protection — temporary contracts between Korea and Uruguay?
- 1.75 0-6 scale, with Uruguay ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Korea and Uruguay?
- 6 years are reported by both, from 2014 to 2019.
- How do Korea and Uruguay rank globally for strictness of employment protection — temporary contracts?
- Korea ranks 1st and Uruguay ranks 3rd of 2 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Strictness of employment protection — Temporary contracts. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The OECD indicators of employment protection are synthetic indicators of the strictness of regulation on dismissals and the use of temporary contracts. For each year, indicators refer to regulation in force on the 1st of January. For more information and full methodology, see OECD Indicators of Employment Protection webpage Last data update: May 2022 OECD statistics contact: ELS.Contact@oecd.org