The varieties of high-skilled immigration policies: coalitions and policy outputs in advanced industrial countries

Černá, Lucie

doi:10.1080/13501760802453148

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“…Though organised business played a key role in earlier Marxistinspired research during the 1970s and 1980s (Castles & Kosack 1973;Miles 1987;Piore 1979), rather little scholarly attention has been paid to the role of employer associations in migration studies in recent decades (exceptions are Caviedes 2010aCaviedes , 2010bCerna 2009;Menz 2008Menz , 2010. Both Menz (2008Menz ( , 2010 and Caviedes (2010aCaviedes ( , 2010b have adopted a comparative-capitalisms approach in their studies of employer preferences in relation to migration policy.…”

Section: Social Partners Labour Migration Policy Preferences and Modmentioning

confidence: 99%

Swedish Employers and Trade Unions, Varieties of Capitalism and Labour Migration Policies

Johansson

2012

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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This article explores the extent to which the varieties of capitalism (VoC) approach can inform our understanding of the role of organised interests in the process of labour migration policy reform in Sweden during the 2000s. VoC scholars maintain that policymakers prefer reforms conforming to the national political economy. Employers are also thought to support policies incentivecompatible with the prevailing model of capitalism. The analysis presents a case that is partly at odds with the view of economic and social policy reform developed in the VoC approach. The analysis show that the Swedish Confederation of Enterprise prefers a market-liberal labour migration policy, while the Swedish Trade Union Confederation prefers state-coordinated labour migration policies compatible with central features of the Swedish coordinated model -active labour market policies and strong trade unions.

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Section: Social Partners Labour Migration Policy Preferences and Modmentioning

confidence: 99%

Swedish Employers and Trade Unions, Varieties of Capitalism and Labour Migration Policies

Johansson

2012

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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“…This has happened mostly in the field of study of immigration, integration and access-to-citizenship policies (see Boucher et al, 2012;Cerna, 2009;Helbling, Bjerre, R€ omer, & Zobel, 2014;Ruhs, 2011;Thielemann, 2012;Vink & Baub€ ock, 2013). Most of these efforts have a geographic and thematic focus that reveals a receiving-country bias in the subjects/objects of research: they primarily include Western European, OECD and a few other etypically Anglo-Saxone countries, and deal primarily with a particular subset of immigration policies (asylum, labor migration, high-skilled migration, etc.).…”

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Diaspora policies in comparison: An application of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) for the Latin American and Caribbean region

Pedroza

Palop-García

2017

Political Geography

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a b s t r a c tIn this paper we present the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX), an index that summarizes the emigrant policies developed by 22 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) states. In recent decades sending states have increasingly adopted policies to keep economic, political or social links with their emigrants. These "emigrant policies" vary in scope and nature between different countries and include measures as diverse as dual citizenship policies, programs to stimulate remittances, the right to vote in the home country from abroad, and the creation of government agencies to administer emigrant issues. The EMIX proposes a useful tool to condense and compare a wide spectrum of policies across countries. Its development involved the collection of official data, as well as a critical review of secondary literature and input from experts as complementary sources. Through a rigorous framework for constructing the index, we show how emigrant policies can be aggregated to measure the overall degree and volume of emigrant policies in LAC states. The results of the EMIX portray a region that has indeed made serious efforts to assist their diaspora in the states of reception and to encourage their involvement in the political, economic and social fabric in the states of origin. The results, however, also reveal great variation in the emigrant policies and the administrative setting adopted by LAC states.

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“…Looking at high-skilled immigration policies, Cerna (2009) argues that the preferences of political parties' core constituencies explain differences in levels of openness to highly skilled immigration across countries. A core constituency of native high-skilled workers is expected to result in a restrictive highly skilled immigration policy.…”

Section: Parties and Governmentsmentioning

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Comparative political economy and international migration

Afonso

Devitt

2016

Socioecon Rev

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This article provides an overview of the literature connecting comparative political economy and international migration in advanced industrialised countries with a focus on the relationship between labour migration, labour markets and welfare institutions. Immigration flows and policies are considered both as independent (how migration shapes capitalist institutions) and dependent variables (how migration flows and policies are shaped by capitalist institutions). First, we discuss the impact of international migration on labour market institutions, welfare states and skill production regimes. Second, we discuss how labour market institutions and welfare arrangements shape migrant inflows and migration policies, notably via the structuration of interests of employers, organised labour and governments. We emphasise the ideas of liberalisation, segmentation, substitution and complementarity to grasp the relationship between immigration and labour market institutions.

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The varieties of high-skilled immigration policies: coalitions and policy outputs in advanced industrial countries

Cited by 50 publications

References 21 publications

Swedish Employers and Trade Unions, Varieties of Capitalism and Labour Migration Policies

Swedish Employers and Trade Unions, Varieties of Capitalism and Labour Migration Policies

Diaspora policies in comparison: An application of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) for the Latin American and Caribbean region

Comparative political economy and international migration

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