COVID crisis has produced many negatives but some positives too, including confidence in governments: ANU study
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Research by the Australian National University has found a big spike in the fear of becoming unemployed even among those who have kept their jobs in the COVID crisis.
Among the employed, the average expected probability of losing their job was 24.6% in the April study. This was almost twice as high as it has ever been since 2001.
More than one in...