Which jobs are most at risk from the coronavirus shutdown?
- Written by Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne
The immediate impact of the coronavirus shutdown is striking in its magnitude, its speed and its concentration on a small set of industries.
My attempt to identify where the virus and the shutdown will have the biggest effect suggests that in February 2020 about 2.7 million workers were employed in the most exposed industries.
And while it...
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