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Title: When Labor’s Lost: Health, Family Life, Incarceration, and Education in a Time of Declining Economic Opportunity for Men
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: While the 20th century was largely a time of rising prosperity for American families, the economic progress of U.S. men has stagnated in recent decades. The labor force participation rate of men ages 25 to 54 peaked at 97 percent in the mid-1960s and has declined by roughly eight percentage points since then, while men’s real median earnings have been flat since the early 1970s.2 These population averages mask larger declines in participation among less educated and non-white men (Juhn and Potter, 2006) as well as substantial increases in wage inequality (Autor, Katz, and Kearney, 2008). A large economic literature has arisen to explore these trends, encompassing demand-side factors like skillbiased technological change (Acemoglu and Autor, 2010) and globalization (Autor, Dorn, and Hanson, 2013) as well as supply-side factors such as rising spousal employment, greater use of the Social Security Disability Insurance program (Autor and Duggan, 2003), and rising utility . . .
Url: https://mgduggan.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj4331/f/jep_coileduggan_august2018.pdf
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Authors: Coile, Courtney, C; Duggan, Mark, G
Publisher: Sanford University
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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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