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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2020.21.1.138

Development of Survey Framework for Prevailing Wage in the Construction Industry  

Lee, Ju-hyun (Cost Engineering & Management Center, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
Baek, Seung-Ho (Cost Engineering & Management Center, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.21, no.1, 2020 , pp. 138-147 More about this Journal
Abstract
The construction field is one of the most representative job creation businesses, but it has been pointed out that the overall quality of the jobs is low because of the nature of the order-made production industry, such as unstable employment structure, aging workforce, etc.. Accordingly, the government plans to implement the "prevailing wage system" that guarantees a minimum wage for construction site workers. In reality, however, only a market wage could be used for a construction cost estimation because there was no standard for the prevailing wage. A comparative analysis of the prevailing wage and market wage was performed. This paper proposes a framework for estimating the reasonable prevailing wage in the construction industry. The results showed that the prevailing wage was estimated to be 4.7% lower than the market wage when the proposed framework is applied to the carpenters' case. This suggests that the proposed model could be used as an alternative for market wage considering the original purpose of the prevailing wage. This study will construct the basic data for scientific analysis on the wage, and finally, help estimate the reliable prevailing wage in the future.
Keywords
Market Wage; Prevailing Wage; Labor Wage Survey; Construction Cost; Estimation;
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