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Impact Of The Skill Shortage On The Construction Supply Chain Performance In Australia, Ming Juan Ding, Ferry Jie, Sommala Sisombat, Bala S. Bandlamudi

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the skill shortage impacts the performance of the construction supply chain in Australia. The study has adopted a quantitative research method. The quantitative data were collected by conducting a survey of employees who work in construction companies in Australia. A regression analysis was used to analyze the data from 113 respondents. The findings of the study reveal that the construction sector in Australia has high labour costs, but workers are still thinking they are not getting paid enough and cannot invest more in themselves to improve their skills. There is a …