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The Challenges of the Construction Workforce Shortage: the Case of Croatia

The construction workforce is essential to the construction industry, which is known globally for its generation of jobs at different skill and professional levels. The world’s construction industry is currently experiencing a rapid recovery after the 2008 global crisis. This positive growth is also noticeable in Croatia. Nevertheless, the industry is experiencing a considerable skilled workforce shortage as well. This paper provides a statistical analysis of the construction workforce in Croatia from 2008 to 2017. The Croatian construction workforce is divided into unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled, and highly skilled employees with basic school and secondary school education, non-university college degrees, and university degrees. The analysis shows that the total number of workers employed over the last 10 years decreased significantly. There was an increase in the number of unskilled workers and a decrease in the number of all other types of workers in the 2016–2017 period, reflecting the adverse events in the construction workforce market. The main causes of the current state are analysed and response strategies on how to improve the current construction labour market crisis in Croatia are proposed.

Construction Workforce ; Workforce Shortage ; Croatian Construction Industry

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