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What should we do with 1 billion hours of time? Australia's COVID-19 opportunity

  • Written by Emil Temnyalov, Senior Lecturer, Economics, University of Technology Sydney
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COVID-19’s impact on the Australian labour market has been dramatic and multifaceted.

Some sectors of the economy have been almost completely shut down by government order. The demand in many industries has collapsed, while a few others have seen an increase.

As many as one million jobs are under threat. Such estimates came before...

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