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Officially, the unemployment rate is 4.2%. But that doesn’t count all the hidden workers in Australia

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par 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 two million people – hidden workers – who remain on the fringes of the labour market.…

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