From the Managing Editor

Abstract

Welcome to the second issue of the Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) for 2020. This year Australia, like every country in the world has experienced one of the biggest shocks to its economy due to the COVID-19 pandemic with enormous impacts on the labour market. Given its importance we have made this issue of AJLE a Special Issue devoted to the effects of COVID-19 on the Australian labour market. This issue covers different aspects of the topic, including the impacts on jobs, policies to reduce unemployment such as JobKeeper, the long-run effects on jobseekers through scarring and the particular impacts on Indigenous Australians. Finally, certain policies which have been proposed to aid recovery of the economy, such as taxation reform and education reform are discussed.