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The charts that show coronavirus pushing up to a quarter of the workforce out of work

  • Written by: Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute
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We knew it would be bad. But we’d hoped it wouldn’t be quite this bad.

Over the past few weeks, we at Grattan Institute have been working on ways to estimate the impact of the COVID-19 shutdown on jobs in Australia.

It’s a complex task, with few obvious precedents.

The results, detailed in our new working paper, Shutdown...

Read more: The charts that show coronavirus pushing up to a quarter of the workforce out of work

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