Generations of Discontent: Labor Force Participation and Wages

Julie Hotchkiss

Policy Hub, 2024, vol. 2024, issue 9, 12

Abstract: After decades of decline, the labor force participation rates among men started rising in the middle and latter years of the 2010s and is currently at its highest level since 2010. This paper explores the potential role that the market wage and wage growth across generations of men could play in explaining, first, the decline, and then, the apparent reversal. This paper compares the experience of men to that of women, who had a much different labor force participation and wage experience than men across the generations.

Keywords: labor force participation rates; generation; cohort; reservation wage; wage growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.29338/ph2024-09

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