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Title: Losing Ground: Demographic Trends in US Labor Force Participation
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Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: The US labor force participation rate for people aged 25–64 has continued to fall since the Great Recession. Much of the improvement in the US unemployment rate is due to an increasing number of people not being counted as working or looking for work, as reported by Papadimitriou, Hannsgen, and Nikiforos (2013). Our analysis shows that while virtually all groups have suffered in terms of employment rates and real wages, the impact of declining labor force participation has not been uniform across all groups—some groups have experienced greater declines than others, while rates for some groups have actually increased—just as the declines in real wages have not been uniform across demographic groups (Rios-Avila 2015). This policy note examines the trends in labor force participation rates since 1989 for the US population aged 25–64. Although it is commonly understood that part of the broader decline in US labor force participation is due to the aging of the population, this is not the only significant demographic transformation that has been affecting the participation rate. This policy note presents. . .
Url: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/pn_15_7.pdf
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Authors: Rios-Avila, Fernando
Publisher: Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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