Research on skilled migration has dealt overwhelmingly with the contribution of migration to productivity growth, to changes in the income of migrants and the factors influencing their employment. Much less attention has been paid to the institutional mechanisms that mediate between the external...

As the long boom that followed the Second World War ended in inflation, unemployment and exchange rate instability, business peak associations became more active on a range of policy issues. Industries that had not seen value in such forms of political organisation in the past established them....