The ABS has released special survey data on the impacts of the COVID-19 shutdown on the Australian labour market, specifically jobs and wages based on Single Touch Payroll data from the Australian Taxation Office:
The new data showed that between 14 March and 4 April (the three weeks after Australia recorded its 100th confirmed COVID-19 case) jobs decreased by 6.0%.
Head of Labour Statistics at the ABS, Bjorn Jarvis, said: “The largest impact of net job losses, in percentage terms, was for people aged under 20, for whom jobs decreased by 9.9%.
