Special Issue of Australian Journal of Labour Economics: Effects of COVID-19 on Labour Market

The second issue of the Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) for 2020 has been released. This issue is a special issue dedicated to the effects of COVID-19 on the labour market, with articles on JobKeeper, tax reform, the Indigenous labour market, scarring effects, job postings and more.

• From the Managing Editor, by Phil Lewis
• JobKeeper: The efficacy of Australia’s first short-time wage subsidy, by Rebecca Cassells and Alan Duncan
• Early estimates of the impact of COVID-19 disruptions on jobs, wages, and lifetime earnings of schoolchildren in Australia, by Gigi Foster
• Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 on job postings in Australia using a reweighting-estimation-transformation approach, by Kailing Shen and Bledi Taska
• Scarring effects: A review of Australian and international literature, by Jeff Borland
• How might COVID-19 affect the Indigenous labour market? By Yonatan Dinku, Boyd Hunter and Francis Markham
• The urgent need for tax reform in Australia in the COVID-19 world, by Tristram Sainsbury and Robert Breunig
• The Proposed Job-ready Graduate Package: a misguided arrow missing its target, by Anne Daly and Phil Lewis