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Title: The Decline in Male Labor Force Participation
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1. Parsons, Donald O.
The Decline in Male Labor Force Participation
Journal of Political Economy 88,1 (February 1980): 117-134.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1830962
Cohort(s): Older Men
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Social Security; Unemployment; Welfare

The rate of nonparticipation in market work among prime-aged males in the United States has risen persistently during the postwar period. The rate among males aged 45-54, for example, has risen from 4.5 percent to 8.4 percent from l947 to l976, with similar trends among other age groups. The principal hypothesis explored is that labor force withdrawal has been induced by the rapid expansion of welfare alternatives to work, principally the Social Security disability program. Cross-sectional evidence strongly confirms this hypothesis. Time-series projections of the cross-sectional model, moreover, track actual postwar trends in male labor force participation reasonably well.
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Parsons, Donald O. "The Decline in Male Labor Force Participation." Journal of Political Economy 88,1 (February 1980): 117-134.