Creating

DOING BUSINESS INDICATORS 99
Hiring and Firing Workers
JANUARY 2005
Registering Property
JANUARY 2005
Difficulty Rigidity Difficulty Rigidity of Hiring Firing Cost
of hiring of hours of firing employment cost Cost (% of
index index index index (% of (weeks of Procedures Time property
Economy (0–100) (0–100) (0–100) (0–100) salary) salary) (number) (days) value)
Guyana . . . . . . . . 7 . . 4 24 2.5
Haiti 11 40 20 24 9 26 5 683 8.1
Honduras 22 40 40 34 10 46 7 36 5.8
Hong Kong, China 0 0 0 0 5 13 5 83 5.0
Hungary 11 80 20 37 34 34 4 78 11.0
Iceland 33 60 0 31 12 13 3 4 2.4
India 56 40 90 62 12 79 6 67 8.9
Indonesia 61 40 70 57 10 145 7 42 11.0
Iran 78 60 10 49 23 90 9 36 5.0
Iraq 78 80 50 69 12 4 5 8 7.7
Ireland 28 40 30 33 11 52 5 38 10.3
Israel 0 80 20 33 6 90 7 144 7.5
Italy 61 80 30 57 33 47 8 27 0.9
Jamaica 11 0 20 10 12 60 5 54 13.5
Japan 17 40 0 19 13 21 6 14 4.1
Jordan 11 40 50 34 11 90 8 22 10.0
Kazakhstan 0 60 10 23 22 8 8 52 1.6
Kenya 33 20 30 28 5 47 8 73 4.1
Kiribati 0 0 50 17 8 46 4 58 0.1
Korea 44 60 30 45 17 90 7 11 6.3
Kuwait 0 60 0 20 11 42 8 75 0.6
Kyrgyz Republic 33 40 40 38 27 21 7 10 5.3
Lao PDR 11 60 80 50 5 36 9 135 4.2
Latvia 67 40 70 59 22 17 9 54 2.1
Lebanon 33 0 40 24 22 17 8 25 5.9
Lesotho 56 60 10 42 0 47 6 101 8.5
Lithuania 33 60 40 44 28 34 3 3 0.8
Macedonia, FYR 61 60 40 54 33 41 6 74 3.6
Madagascar 67 60 50 59 18 41 8 134 11.0
Malawi 22 20 20 21 1 90 6 118 3.4
Malaysia 0 20 10 10 13 65 4 143 2.3
Maldives 0 20 0 7 0 20 . . . . . .
Mali 78 60 60 66 24 81 5 44 20.0
Marshall Islands 33 0 0 11 11 0 4 12 1.7
Mauritania 100 60 60 73 17 31 4 49 6.8
Mauritius 0 60 50 37 7 15 5 210 16.5
Mexico 33 60 60 51 24 75 5 74 5.3
Micronesia 33 0 0 11 6 0 3 8 1.1
Moldova 33 100 70 68 30 21 6 48 1.5
Mongolia 11 80 10 34 19 17 5 11 2.3
Morocco 100 40 40 60 18 83 3 82 6.1
Mozambique 83 80 20 61 4 141 8 42 5.2
Namibia 0 60 20 27 0 24 9 28 9.3
Nepal 22 20 90 44 0 90 2 2 6.2
Netherlands 28 60 60 49 16 16 2 2 6.2
New Zealand 11 0 10 7 0 0 2 2 0.1
Nicaragua 11 80 50 47 17 24 7 65 6.5
Niger 100 100 70 90 16 76 5 49 14.0
Nigeria 33 60 20 38 8 4 21 274 27.1
Norway 44 40 30 38 14 12 1 1 2.5
Oman 44 60 0 35 9 13 4 16 3.0
Pakistan 67 40 30 46 12 90 5 49 3.2