America’s Missing Workers Are Primarily Middle Educated

Alan Armen and Tyler Atkinson (tyler.atkinson@dal.frb.org)

Economic Letter, 2017, vol. 12, issue 4, 4 pages

Abstract: The labor force participation rate has fallen since 2008, partly due to an aging population and despite a more highly educated one. After accounting for aging, those whose highest educational attainment is a high school diploma, some college or an associate degree have primarily driven the participation decrease.

Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/6362/item/607729 Full Text (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fip:feddel:00044

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
pubsorder@dal.frb.org

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economic Letter from Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Amy Chapman (amy.chapman@dal.frb.org).