The Politics of Vocational Training

Busemeyer, Marius R.; Trampusch, Christine

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“…By contrast, CMEs’ skill formation rests more on collaborative and longer-term actor relations, which is believed to increase the likelihood of firms cooperating with unions and other firms to develop industry-specific skills that apprenticeship systems typically provide (Hall and Soskice 2001; Busemeyer and Trampusch 2019). Coordinated skill formation is complemented by coordinated industrial relations systems that compress wages by setting relatively high wage floors and moderating wage determinations.…”

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“…Other studies have used the VoC framework to analyze how national market institutions condition the scale and skill mix of firms' demand for migrant labor (e.g., Wright 2012). In sum, previous research has suggested that labor migration as a source of skills is more complementary in LMEs than in CMEs because of the impact of their respective skill formation and industrial relations institutions (Afonso and Devitt 2016;Busemeyer and Trampusch 2019).…”

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“…I ncreased cross-border labor mobility has expanded skill supply in many advanced economies in recent decades. Despite the growing importance of migration as a source of skills, academic research continues to focus almost exclusively on domestic sources of skills supply and their relationship with national institutions (Busemeyer and Trampusch 2019). This research suggests these institutions affect the scale and skill mix of labor migration (Afonso and Devitt 2016).…”

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Labor Migration as a Source of Institutional Change: Danish and Australian Construction Sectors Compared

Arnholtz¹,

Wright

2023

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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.

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Labor Migration as a Source of Institutional Change: Danish and Australian Construction Sectors Compared

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Wright

2023

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“…For Oliver et al (2019), the problem of financing training is at the heart of this discussion. For Busemeyer and Trampusch (2019), the types of skills depend on the training systems and their embeddedness in the labour and state structures of a country. They, therefore, propose a typology of skills training based on two dimensions: the initial investment of the company and the commitment of the state to finance VET.…”

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The Implementation of Dual Vocational Education and Training in Spain: Analysis of Company Tutors in the Tourism Sector

Rodríguez

Stendardi

2023

IJRVET

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Context: Vocational education and training (VET) has become a key issue in today's highly dynamic business, technological and economic environment, with a complex diversity of systems within the European Union. This paper aims to study the implementation of dual VET in Spain, focusing on the working conditions of company tutors in the tourism sector of Andalusia and the Canary Islands.Approach: Dual VET has been implemented in different ways, both between the different autonomous regions and professional areas since it was launched in 2012. In order to analyse these differences, interviews with teachers, head teachers, students and company tutors were carried out, between 2020 and 2021, in centres that had implemented dual vocational education training and centres that had not. The educational programme in dual VET implies a closer collaboration between schools and companies, as both are active training areas; the training objectives are shared between the school and the company. In this study, the company tutor is studied in his or her facet as trainer and assessor; but special emphasis is placed on the characteristics of the tourism sector, given its relevance in understanding the educational processes involved. Three dimensions underpin the analysis: the characteristics of the company tutor, the training and assessment processes implemented and the link that both maintain with the dynamics of tourism companies.Findings: In general terms, the initial assumptions put forward are confirmed. Firstly, the educational centre leads the process, taking the initiative yet without having the conditions of governance and negotiation typical of the Germanic countries from which these vocational education training systems originate. Secondly, the main characteristics of the company tutor are heterogeneity and informality. Thirdly, the contents and methodology are conditioned by the characteristics of the tourism sector. And finally, assessment also follows informal and changing procedures, generating tensions between the educational centre and company.Conclusions: These results give rise to some theoretical reflections. If the education system is an institution based on the principle of equality, it is worth asking to what extent dual VET can alter this principle, as the company adapts some of the contents and learning outcomes to its specific needs. In addition, an important differentiating factor that marks the learning dynamics has been detected: the size of the company. The difference in size may also influence the future prospects of trainees joining the workforce after completion of VET studies.

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“…Afonso and Devitt (2016) characterise this area of scholarship as being defined by ‘methodological nationalism’ in its focus on domestic sources of skill formation, such as education and training systems, while generally failing to recognise the role that immigration policies can play. As Busemeyer and Trampusch claim (2019, p. 144), ‘any political economic account of skills and training has to consider potential relationships between labour migration and skill formation [but] surprisingly, this is remarkably underresearched’. In seeking to address this gap, this article first reviews relevant literature on the relationship between immigration, skills and labour market institutions.…”

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

Wright,

McLaughlin

2023

Industrial Relations Journal

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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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The Politics of Vocational Training

Cited by 13 publications

References 81 publications

Labor Migration as a Source of Institutional Change: Danish and Australian Construction Sectors Compared

Labor Migration as a Source of Institutional Change: Danish and Australian Construction Sectors Compared

The Implementation of Dual Vocational Education and Training in Spain: Analysis of Company Tutors in the Tourism Sector

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

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