In this Book
- The Economics of Labor Force Participation
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
This comprehensive and detailed analysis of the factors that determine who is in the labor force in the United States is equally interesting for the light it sheds on what people are not working or seeking work-and why they are not. The effects on labor force participation rates of both individual characteristics (e.g. age, marital status, color, educational attainment) and labor market conditions (unemployment, earnings, industry mix) are analyzed for specific population groups: prime-age males, single women, married women, older persons, and younger persons. The book concludes with a discussion of the sensitivity of participation rates to the tightness of labor markets as revealed by both time-series and cross-sectional analyses.
Originally published in 1969.
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- pp. ix-xvi
- List of Tables
- pp. xvii-xviii
- List of Figures
- pp. xxiv-xxvi
- Part I: Framework of the Study
- Part II: Explaining Labor Force Participation
- 6 Married Women: Labor Market Conditions
- pp. 159-196
- 8 Single Women 25-54
- pp. 242-269
- 9 Older Persons: Individual Characteristics
- pp. 270-334
- 10 Older Persons: Labor Market Conditions
- pp. 335-350
- 13 Younger Persons: Labor Market Conditions
- pp. 419-457
- Part III: Unemployment and Labor Force Participation
- Appendices Chapter Appendices
- pp. 539-628
- General Appendices
- List of General Appendix Tables
- pp. 631-640
- Appendix B Intercity Regressions.
- pp. 772-855
- Appendix C Interstate Regressions.
- pp. 856-860
- Appendix D Time-Series Regressions.
- pp. 861-888