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
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