Officially, the unemployment rate is 4.2%. But that doesn’t count all the hidden workers in Australia
- Written by Sora Lee, Lecturer in Ageing and End of Life, La Trobe University
Australia’s job market is facing a paradox. Employers across every major sector – from construction to healthcare – report crippling skills shortages.
A key measure of skills shortages, the proportion of advertised vacancies filled, shows 30.3% of surveyed occupations were in shortage in the March quarter.
Yet there are more than...
