The paper analyses the problem of a "skills shortage" in Australia. It begins with an analysis of the operation of a … skills shortage, why it persists, and then looks at evidence from Australia, in particular, the resource rich states of … Queensland and Western Australia over the past decade. It discusses possible employer responses to a skills shortage. Finally, it …

the OECD countries, Australia did not even have a recession. In this paper we study the behaviour of the Australian … economy compared to some of the OECD countries and see that, in fact, Australia has a "miracle economy". The comparisons are …