Decline of the Working Man  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 399 no. 8731 (Apr. 2011), page 68-70.
Topik: Unemployment; Men; Statistical Data; Economic Recovery; Labor Market; Hiring; Job Hunting

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Of all the big, rich Group of Seven economies, America has the lowest share of "prime age" males in work: just over 80% of those aged between 25 and 54 have a job. In the late 1960s 95% worked. This collapse of work partly reflects the recession of 2008-09, which drove America's unemployment rate into double digits. It is still high--9.3% for men--and almost half of the jobless have been out of work for more than six months. But there is another cause, less noticed and of longer standing. To count as unemployed, you have to be looking for work, yet ever more men have simply dropped out of the recorded labour force. The decline of the working American man has been most marked among the less educated and blacks. Widespread male worklessness has huge economic, fiscal and social costs. Both Democrats and Republicans seem convinced that as the economy strengthens the labour market will heal itself. But although unemployment will continue to fall as the economy recovers, millions of American men will be left behind.

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