Fig. 3: Australia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate across the period of our analysis (March 2015 to December 2022)33.
From: Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market
The vertical dashed line indicates the first month of the post-pandemic period in Australia (April 2020). The coloured vertical bars indicate pandemic lockdown periods: grey shows the initial national lockdown (23 March 2020 to 31 May 2020), yellow shows the lockdown of Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria (8 July 2020 to 27 October 2020) and light blue shows the lockdown of Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales (26 June 2021 to 11 October 2021)54.
