[AlexandrB]

Reminds me of how "economic freedom" metrics usually include[1] how easy it is to fire people, but not how restricted employees are by non-competes and other measures that make changing jobs harder. This seems to hinge on the idea that employer-employee relationships are non-coercive and potential employees can always "vote with their feet". However, employees usually depend on having a job to live and - whether through collusion or herd mentality - employers in an industry tend to converge on a common set of restrictions on their workers.

[1] https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/approach

> Many types of labor-market regulation infringe on the economic freedom of employees and employers. Among the more prominent are minimum wages, dismissal regulations, centralized wage setting, extension of union contracts to nonparticipating parties, and conscription. The labor-market component (5B) is designed to measure the extent to which these restraints upon economic freedom are present. In order to earn high marks in the component rating regulation of the labor market, a country must allow market forces to determine wages and establish the conditions of hiring and firing, and refrain from the use of conscription.