Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Layoffs, Inequity and COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study of the Journalism
  Jobs Crisis in Australia from 2012 to 2020   In Australia and beyond, journalism is reportedly an industry in crisis, a
crisis exacerbated by COVID-19. However, the evidence revealing the crisis is
often anecdotal or limited in scope. In this unprecedented longitudinal
research, we draw on data from the Australian journalism jobs market from
January 2012 until March 2020. Using Data Science and Machine Learning
techniques, we analyse two distinct data sets: job advertisements (ads) data
comprising 3,698 journalist job ads from a corpus of over 8 million Australian
job ads; and official employment data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Having matched and analysed both sources, we address both the demand for and
supply of journalists in Australia over this critical period. The data show
that the crisis is real, but there are also surprises. Counter-intuitively, the
number of journalism job ads in Australia rose from 2012 until 2016, before
falling into decline. Less surprisingly, for the entire period studied the
figures reveal extreme volatility, characterised by large and erratic
fluctuations. The data also clearly show that COVID-19 has significantly
worsened the crisis. We then tease out more granular findings, including: that
there are now more women than men journalists in Australia, but that gender
inequity is worsening, with women journalists getting younger and worse-paid
just as men journalists are, on average, getting older and better-paid; that,
despite the crisis besetting the industry, the demand for journalism skills has
increased; and that, perhaps concerningly, the skills sought by journalism job
ads increasingly include social media and generalist communications.

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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: eess
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: cs
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: math