From the Managing Editor

Abstract

Welcome to the first issue of the Australian Journal of Labour Economics for 2020. As I announced in the last issue of 2019, we have now moved to producing two issues of the AJLE per year to ensure more timely publication. As it happens this has been particularly appropriate given the rapidly changing labour market, industrial relations and education in Australia at this time. Our next issue of AJLE will contain articles by labour market scholars on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on these and other aspects of interest to our readers. No doubt, the effects of the crisis and its aftermath will continue to be the subject of research for some time yet and the AJLE will provide quality articles on this as well as other issues in labour economics, economics of education and industrial relations.
As always, this issue of AJLE contains articles of interest to scholars and practitioners on a variety of topics but all have important implications for policy.

Phil Lewis, Managing Editor