Determining the Impact of Migration on Labour Markets: The Mediating Role of Legal Institutions

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2021-10-07 DOI:10.1093/indlaw/dwab030

Manoj Dias-Abey

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Abstract

Critics of migration often claim that migrant workers displace local workers from jobs and apply downward pressure on wages. This article begins from the premise that it is impossible to understand the impact of migrant workers on labour markets without considering the functioning of law. Drawing on a reconstructed version of legal institutionalism, one that attends to the structuring influences of capitalist political economy and racism, this article considers the mediating role played by labour market institutions, such as collective bargaining and the contract of employment. An analysis of the historiography of migration to the UK since 1945 shows that labour market institutions have played a key role in influencing the inflow of migrant workers as well as the method of their incorporation into the labour market. In turn, migrant workers have intensified dynamics in the labour market that legal institutions have helped create, such as labour market segmentation. Migrant workers have also impacted the legal institutions themselves, either by being crucial actors in the creation of new legal institutions or by shaping the operation of existing ones.

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确定移民对劳动力市场的影响:法律制度的中介作用

批评移民的人士经常声称，移民工人取代了当地工人的工作，并对工资造成了下行压力。本文的出发点是，如果不考虑法律的作用，就不可能理解农民工对劳动力市场的影响。借鉴法律制度主义的重建版本，一个关注资本主义政治经济和种族主义的结构性影响，本文考虑了劳动力市场制度所起的中介作用，如集体谈判和雇佣合同。对1945年以来英国移民历史的分析表明，劳动力市场制度在影响移徙工人的流入以及将他们纳入劳动力市场的方法方面发挥了关键作用。反过来，移徙工人加强了法律机构帮助创造的劳动力市场的动态，例如劳动力市场分割。移徙工人也对法律机构本身产生了影响，他们要么是建立新的法律机构的关键角色，要么是影响现有法律机构的运作。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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