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Title: Male Prime-age Nonworkers: Evidence from the NLSY97
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Rothstein, Donna S. |
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Male Prime-age Nonworkers: Evidence from the NLSY97 Monthly Labor Review (December 2020):. Also: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2020/article/male-prime-age-nonworkers-evidence-from-the-nlsy97.htm Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Disadvantaged, Economically; Family Background and Culture; Labor Force Participation; Male Sample; Unemployment The labor force participation rate of prime-age men (ages 25 to 54) has been mostly falling since the late 1960s, with steeper declines during recessionary periods. This article uses longitudinal data to examine whether men's prior trajectories of schooling, work, family, neighborhood, health, incarceration, and living situations are associated with nonwork status. It also investigates whether nonwork status is a transitory state and whether nonworkers are supported by family members. The data in this article are from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), which provides detailed histories of respondents' lives across multiple domains. When the 2015-16 NLSY97 interview was conducted, about 8.5 percent of men, who, at the time, ranged in age from 30 to 36 years, had not worked in the prior year. More than two-thirds (70.0 percent) of these men had never married, nearly a third (30.6 percent) lived in a household with a parent, and 16.3 percent were incarcerated at the time of the interview. The vast majority of these men also did not work much in earlier years. Nonworkers not only are more disadvantaged in many aspects of their current lives--such as education, health, incarceration, and finances--but they also were disadvantaged earlier in their lives in terms of family and neighborhood background. |
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Rothstein, Donna S. "Male Prime-age Nonworkers: Evidence from the NLSY97." Monthly Labor Review (December 2020):.
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