Short-term fix or remedy for market failure? Immigration policy as a distinct source of skills

IF 1.6 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI:10.1111/irj.12412
Chris F. Wright, Colm McLaughlin
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This article analyses the role of immigration policy as a distinct source of skills supply in liberal market economies. It draws upon interviews with representatives of employer associations and trade unions in the Australian construction and hospitality industries to identify how labour market actors make sense of the function of immigration policy. Rather than ‘complementing’ or ‘undermining’ training and other domestic labour market institutions, as is often assumed, immigration policy can serve to remedy the systemic failures of these institutions to supply skills in the short term. However, overreliance on immigration can disincentivise reform of the labour market institutions necessary to generate adequate skills supply in the long term. The findings suggest the need to reconceptualise the function of immigration policy in terms of its distinct rather than equivalent functions to labour market institutions.

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市场失灵的短期修复或补救措施?移民政策是技能的独特来源
本文分析了移民政策作为自由市场经济中技能供给的独特来源的作用。它利用对澳大利亚建筑业和酒店业雇主协会和工会代表的采访,确定劳动力市场参与者如何理解移民政策的作用。移民政策可以弥补这些机构在短期内提供技能的系统性失败,而不是像人们通常认为的那样“补充”或“破坏”培训和其他国内劳动力市场机构。然而,对移民的过度依赖可能会阻碍劳动力市场机构的改革,从长远来看,这是创造足够技能供应所必需的。研究结果表明,有必要从移民政策与劳动力市场机构的不同而非等效功能的角度重新定义移民政策的功能。
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