High Skilled Migration to Australia

This assignment examines the influx of high-skilled migrants into Australia, analyzing the political, economic, and legal factors that shape this trend. It delves into Australia's immigration policies, the impact of migration on the Australian economy, and the challenges faced by skilled migrants in adapting to the workplace environment. Additionally, the assignment applies Porter's Diamond model to understand Australia's competitive advantages in attracting high-skilled talent.

Transitional migrant workers(highly skilled) in Australia
Introduction
Since the late 1970s, the Australian immigration industry has been growing rapidly, and the
number of immigrants in Asia and other non-European countries has increased substantially,
making Australia a multicultural country, the largest component of migration is the technology
migration and family reunion program. In terms of skilled migration, Australia has over 128,500
available places in 2015-2016 under the country's General Skilled Migration program ('Australia
Skilled immigration' n.d.). This wiki will discuss how political, economy and legal factors
impact the immigration in Australia. Secondly it will discuss and show the different cultural
aspects of Australia and how this influences migrant workers (high skilled) in Australia. Lastly,
will discuss the Porter diamond model relate the migration industry.
Relations between political economy factors of Australia
Political System
Every country have a political system involving immigrants and policies like visas and taxes were
created in the Australian political system (Collins 2013, pp. 160). For migrants interested in business
they are issued short term visas for either single entry or for multiple entries and those interested in
temporary business are issued with long term visas allowing highly skilled personnel to come to
Australia to work for an approved employer for up to four years (Janet 2006). Furthermore, the tax
system imposed on the migrant's wage is to avoid corruption or underpayment (Janet 2006).
Economic system
When it comes to the Australian economic system, the creation of free market and free trade have
opened many new job opportunities to migrant workers (Economic System Australia 2007).
Moreover, an increase or decrease of the Australian securities exchange will influence the entering of
migrant workers. The economy and stock market affect the success of different companies, and this
achievement or failure flows down the business chain and affects its employees who could be
transnational migrant workers. It also can affect the hiring rate of people due to the company's
power to do so with their profits (Economic System Australia 2007).
Legal System
Next, the Australian legal system includes both the Statutory Law and Common Law but the laws
may differ in each country. Therefore, the employment rate of high skilled migrant workers will be
affected by the acceptance of projects in the country depending on the approval of the legal system
('Overview of the Australian Legal System' n.d.).
Informal economy
The informal economy of most countries are corruption.According to the Transparency International,
Australian industries is less based on the Corruption Perceptions Index that was determined by expert
assessments and opinion surveys (Corruption Perceptions Index 2017). However, corruption
influences people to work side jobs on top of their primary or actual job and also enter legal firms by
bribing the board members or owners.
Australia’s Cultural aspects
Once looking through the 6D lens of Geert Hofstede's research it paints quite a detailed picture
of Australian different cultural aspects. As the diagram shows the scores below, it enables us to

discuss the different aspects of Australia’s social culture and then interpret it on how it would
affect high skilled migrant workers in Australia.
Appendix 1- Australia - Geert Hofstede
Individualism and Indulgence
This research shows that Australia has a score of 90 when it comes to Individualism and 71 in
indulgence ('Australia - Geert Hofstede' n.d.). This proves that Australia's culture is one where
people look after mainly on themselves and their immediate families including the business
world initiative and self reliance that is ranked highly. In addition to this it also shows that
Australian culture is one of the indulgence where people like to enjoy themselves through leisure
and spending their money on necessities and luxuries items or lifestyle. In business this shows
that Australia does have competition among each other and overseer. This competition or rivalry
is because people are trying to look after their own interests but on the contrary know that once
they are out of work they would like to spend their time and money on hobbies and interest that
satisfies there indulgent side.
Masculinity and Uncertainty Avoidance
When looking at the other aspects, Australia received a score of 61 in masculinity and 51 in
uncertainty avoidance ('Australia - Geert Hofstede' n.d.). This shows that society in Australia
places strength on the masculine traits such as striving to be the best you can be and "winner
takes it all". In addition to this a medium score of 51 in Uncertainty Avoidance shows that
Australian people are divided by whether they like being in an ambiguous or unknown situations.
This can be related to business as it could be said that success is based on winning and this
creates competition and rivalry throughout business but remains neutral on whether they like to
compete in ambiguous situations or remain in comfortable situations.
Power distance and Long Term Orientation

Lastly Australia's culture received a score of 36 in Power Distance and 21 in Long Term
Orientation ('Australia - Geert Hofstede' n.d.). This means that in businesses the hierarchical
structure is not heavily followed by managers and are quite easily accessible to their employees.
In addition to this Australia focuses on achieving quick and highly rewardable results together
with having small propensity to save for their future.
Effect that these cultural aspects have on high skilled migrant workers
High skilled workers that migrate to Australia could face some struggles or challenges with
certain aspects of Australia's culture. One of them that could really effect them once migrating
would be individualism. Once moving over to Australia the work culture could leave them
unsupported in the workplace through Australian’s are known to just looking after one another.
Also having masculinity being favored could lead to other co workers have fierce rivalry with
each other. This could make it a lot harder for them to settle in their workplace and they could
feel isolated. In addition to this, by not having long-term orientation as a strong cultural aspect
could make the migrant workers feel insecure in their job. This could leave them feeling anxious
about their job and also the canceling of their visa. Moreover in some cases, the high stress
intake and anxiety load could lead to depression and maybe suicidal reaction. Lastly with the
relation towards informal economy, the low score in long term orientation could make it easier
for people to bribe their way into jobs in Australia causing black market trading which does not
benefit the government. All these factors will affect the decisions of high skilled migrant
workers entering Australia.
Porter Diamond model relating to High skilled migrants industry in Australia
The Porter Diamond model was created to show the different and help understand the
different competitive advantages each nation has and show how government can act as

catalysts to position their nation stronger on a global economic scale (Staff n.d.).
(Mulder 2016)
Different components
The porter model as shown above is made up of different parts that are interconnected. Three
parts that affect the high skilled migration industry are Demand Conditions, Factor Conditions
Firm strategy, structure and rivalry is the component that refers to the basic fact that competition
leads to businesses finding ways to increase production and to the development of technological
innovations (Staff n.d.). Looking at this from the perspective of the high skilled migrant industry.
There is plenty of competition between countries for high skilled workers. High skilled migrant
workers have an array of countries they can choose from however it is difficult to get work in
every country. Due to Australia having high rates of multiculturalism and migration it has a lot
of competition which in turn increases production and development of technological innovations.
Demand Conditions
Demand conditions refer to the size and nature of the customer base for products, which also
drives innovation and product improvement (Staff n.d.). In Australia the customer base for
products isn’t quite as high compared to other countries however due to high incomes and a high
level of
1. Factor Conditions= elements that Porter believes a country’s economy can create for
itself, such as a large pool of skilled labor, technological innovation, infrastructure and
capital.

2. Related Supporting Industries= refers to upstream and downstream industries that
facilitate innovation through exchanging ideas.
3. Chance= events as the ones that have little to do with circumstances in a nation and are
largely outside of the control of firms. Events could be significant shifts in exchange
rates, wars or decisions taken by foreign governments.
4. Government= acts as a catalyst and challenger.
Conclusion
Therefore, it can be concluded that the immigration industry in Australia is growing at a
very fast rate as well as the increase of the non- European people also increased at a higher pace.
The migrant workers are the sources of positive outlook to the Australian economy. In terms of
political system, the migrants who take interest to work in Australia, can stay upto four years.
The country also allowed long term visas for the migrant having highly personalized skills. Next
is the economic system, with the coming of the migrants, there is an economic boon in the
Australian business. The opening up of the free trade and market, would determine the various
job opportunities and the skilled migrants can avail those opportunities in Australia. The
Australia’s legal system also affects the acceptance of the highly skilled labors in the Australian
business, depending upon the projects. However, Australia being the multicultural country,
where the migrants who are especially highly skilled can face challenges in terms of coping up
with the environment of the workplace of Australian business. The challenges are however
inevitable, hence, but Australia as a whole gives chances to the migrant works to implement their
skills on different projects. Next, the model of Porter diamond was applied to this topic to state
about the competitive advantages about each nation where Australia proved to be efficient in
terms of economy, supporting industries, chances for the migrant labors who are skilled. Thus, it
can be said that Australia has laid down a larger avenue for the people who are skilled migrants
who can prove themselves efficient to contribute to Australia’s outlook.