The JobKeeper Payment was a wage subsidy and income support program delivered in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report presents the Australian Treasury's analysis on the first six months of the JobKeeper Payment (to 27 September 2020), reflecting on the design and initial impacts of JobKeeper as a key element of the...

This report delivers the Productivity Commission’s estimates of assistance provided to businesses for the year to June 2020. The review is set against a background of unprecedented industry assistance to counter the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, although most of this assistance has been provided in 2020–21.

This paper argues that reforming and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies will be important not only for Australia to play its part in avoiding dangerous climate change, but also for facilitating public spending in more beneficial areas.

This document provides a brief preliminary analysis of the short-run impact of COVID-19 and the government’s Covid Wage Subsidy (CWS) response on labour market flows.

In response to the sharp fall in economic activity in the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Australian government announced a series of measures to support incomes and employment. The largest was the JobKeeper payment - a wage subsidy to help keep employees and firms connected. In this paper, the authors explore what effect...