Labor Migration as a Source of Institutional Change: Danish and Australian Construction Sectors Compared
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Labor Migration as a Source of Institutional Change : Danish and Australian Construction Sectors Compared. / Arnholtz, Jens; F. Wright, Chris .
In: ILR Review, Vol. 76, No. 3, 2023, p. 532-555.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Labor Migration as a Source of Institutional Change
T2 - Danish and Australian Construction Sectors Compared
AU - Arnholtz, Jens
AU - F. Wright, Chris
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In this article, the authors examine the role of labor immigration as a source of institutional change. They use a “most different systems” comparative case study analysis of the Danish and Australian construction sectors to examine the impact of increased labor migration on skill-sourcing practices in countries with distinct national skill formation and industrial relations institutions. Drawing on 73 interviews with industry stakeholders, the authors find that labor migration has produced liberalizing pressures in both Denmark and Australia, albeit in ways that differ from each other. The article contributes to comparative institutional scholarship by illustrating how labor migration can promote or support institutional change in a liberalizing direction by disincentivizing coordinated skill formation. Findings suggest that while national institutions mediate external pressures, such as labor migration, such pressures may affect the incentive structures that can either maintain or erode national institutions.
AB - In this article, the authors examine the role of labor immigration as a source of institutional change. They use a “most different systems” comparative case study analysis of the Danish and Australian construction sectors to examine the impact of increased labor migration on skill-sourcing practices in countries with distinct national skill formation and industrial relations institutions. Drawing on 73 interviews with industry stakeholders, the authors find that labor migration has produced liberalizing pressures in both Denmark and Australia, albeit in ways that differ from each other. The article contributes to comparative institutional scholarship by illustrating how labor migration can promote or support institutional change in a liberalizing direction by disincentivizing coordinated skill formation. Findings suggest that while national institutions mediate external pressures, such as labor migration, such pressures may affect the incentive structures that can either maintain or erode national institutions.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - comparative industrial relations
KW - construction sector
KW - institutional change
KW - labor migration
KW - liberalization
KW - skill formation
KW - training
U2 - 10.1177/00197939231153138
DO - 10.1177/00197939231153138
M3 - Journal article
VL - 76
SP - 532
EP - 555
JO - ILR Review
JF - ILR Review
SN - 0019-7939
IS - 3
ER -
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