Despite massive lockdowns, many countries have seen a rise in jobs numbers during the pandemic. What’s going wrong in Australia?
To listen to Donald Trump or Josh Frydenberg one would think that COVID-19 causes widespread permanent job losses. It doesn’t.
Gross mismanagement of the pandemic or of the economy — or both — has caused permanent job losses, or at least severe long-term hardship for workers. We know this from observing countries affected by the pandemic which have kept their economies running and job levels steady.
