labor-force participation
description: the percentage of working-age people who are either employed or actively seeking work
170 results
The Rise of Carry: The Dangerous Consequences of Volatility Suppression and the New Financial Order of Decaying Growth and Recurring Crisis
by Tim Lee, Jamie Lee and Kevin Coldiron · 13 Dec 2019 · 241pp · 81,805 words
was long since over—in their opinion. On the other side of the debate, others argued that the US inflation rate was still low and labor force participation levels still weak, so there was no rush to raise interest rates. This type of discussion continues to be couched in the context of a
Immigration worldwide: policies, practices, and trends
by Uma Anand Segal, Doreen Elliott and Nazneen S. Mayadas · 19 Jan 2010 · 492pp · 70,082 words
~Percentage Intake 1997–98 ~Percentage Intake 2006–07 #No. of arrivals 1997–2007 #Percentage intake 1997–2007 * Census count 2006 * Median Age in Years * Qualifications * Labor Force Participation * Unemployment Rate * Citizenship * English Proficiency Total Australian Population Total Overseas born N/A New Zealand United Kingdom N/A 19 12 6 4 5 4
Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
by Jane McGonigal · 22 Mar 2022 · 420pp · 135,569 words
/womens-labor-force-participation-rate-hit-33-year-low-in-january-2021.html; Catarina Saraiva, “Women Leaving Workforce Again Shows Uneven U.S. Jobs Recovery,” Bloomberg News, May 7
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Robert J. Gordon · 12 Jan 2016 · 1,104pp · 302,176 words
elementary school, with few young people extending their education beyond age 12, and even then often dependent on parental willingness to pay for private schooling. Labor-force participation was high for males aged 16–19. The difference between male and female teenagers should be underlined, with 1870 participation rates for ages 16–19
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women, who could now control the number and timing of children, to enter the labor force. The years of the most rapid increase in the labor-force participation rate of women were 1965–85—that is, starting soon after the pill became widely available in the early 1960s. Birth control pills did more
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
by Richard Beck · 2 Sep 2024 · 715pp · 212,449 words
. 2022, www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/poverty-awareness-month.html. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 61 Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate, chart, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dec. 2, 2022, www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 62 Colin Moynihan, “In ‘Occupy,’ Well-Educated Professionals Far Outnumbered
Investment: A History
by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing · 19 Feb 2016
Mid-Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Economic History 54, no. 4 (December 1994): 736–738. 10. Ibid., 757–760. 11. Chulhee Lee, “Sectoral Shift and the Labor-Force Participation of Older Males in the United States, 1880–1940,” Journal of Economic History 62, no. 2 (June 2002): 520. 12. Ibid., 521. 13. Dora L
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Length of Male Retirement in the United States, 1850–1990.” Journal of Population Economics 14, no. 4 (December 2001): 641–650. ——. “Sectoral Shift and the Labor-Force Participation of Older Males in the United States, 1880–1940.” Journal of Economic History 62, no. 2 (June 2002): 512–523. Leemans, W. F. “The Role
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
by Robert D. Putnam · 12 Oct 2020 · 678pp · 160,676 words
America’s “I” decades is that the difference between median black and white earnings today is “as large as it was in 1950.”44 Furthermore, labor force participation rates among African Americans have continued to decline and incarceration rates among young black men have exploded in recent decades, factors which many scholars feel
Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
by Virginia Eubanks · 1 Feb 2011 · 289pp · 99,936 words
a larger share of employment is going to women and in the sense that employment itself has shifted to have characteristics associated with women’s labor force participation: lower pay, contingent and temporary work arrangements, and little or no job training (ibid.).20 Generalized imputations of “women’s economic interests” and “men’s
Economic Dignity
by Gene Sperling · 14 Sep 2020 · 667pp · 149,811 words
this desperation.”91 Economists Eleanor Krause and Isabel Sawhill found that in the ten counties with the highest rates of deaths of despair, the male labor force participation rate (those who are working or looking for work) was only 73 percent—compared with 88 percent nationally at that time in 2014.92 Alan
The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter · 14 Sep 2020 · 627pp · 89,295 words
been forced into part-time jobs, are not earning a living wage, or have stopped searching for work all together. After decades of steady gains, labor-force participation has shrunk since 2000 to levels not seen since the 1980s. This falloff reflects the fact that American companies are creating fewer jobs than before
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economic competitiveness, 75–78 definition of, 75 economic performance deterioration and, 76 government policy and, xiv impact on families and communities of decline in, 77 labor-force participation and, 76–77 as a politics problem, 78 productivity growth and, 76 survey (2016) on, 77–78, 79 economic conditions Americans’ views on democracy and
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Justice Department, 35 Kennedy, John F., 163 Kennedy, Ted, 73, 74, 196n15, 196–197n18, 197n19 Khanna, Ro, 124 King, Angus, 151 Ku Klux Klan, 100 labor-force participation, 76–77 La Follette, Robert “Fighting Bob,” 110, 166 Lamont, Ned, 48 lawmaking. See legislative machinery Lawrence, Eric, 206n69 Lawrence, Jennifer, 155 laws anti-immigration
Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis
by Beth Macy · 15 Aug 2022 · 389pp · 111,372 words
Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism
by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart · 31 Dec 2018
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
by Ray Kurzweil · 25 Jun 2024
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
by Anne Case and Angus Deaton · 17 Mar 2020 · 421pp · 110,272 words
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
by Charles Murray · 28 Jan 2020 · 741pp · 199,502 words
Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us From Citizen Kings to Market Servants
by Maurice E. Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi · 14 May 2020 · 511pp · 132,682 words
Off the Books
by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
by Gabriel Winant · 23 Mar 2021 · 563pp · 136,190 words
The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future
by Noreena Hertz · 13 May 2020 · 506pp · 133,134 words
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham · 27 Jan 2021 · 460pp · 107,454 words
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 15 Mar 2015 · 409pp · 125,611 words
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
by Bryan Caplan · 16 Jan 2018 · 636pp · 140,406 words
The Meritocracy Myth
by Stephen J. McNamee · 17 Jul 2013 · 440pp · 108,137 words
Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality
by Vito Tanzi · 28 Dec 2017
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Hardback) - Common
by Alan Greenspan · 14 Jun 2007
The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
by Ruchir Sharma · 5 Jun 2016 · 566pp · 163,322 words
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
by Philip Mirowski · 24 Jun 2013 · 662pp · 180,546 words
Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes
by Mark Penn and E. Kinney Zalesne · 5 Sep 2007 · 458pp · 134,028 words
Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
by David G. Blanchflower · 12 Apr 2021 · 566pp · 160,453 words
The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History
by Derek S. Hoff · 30 May 2012
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor
by William Julius Wilson · 1 Jan 1996 · 399pp · 116,828 words
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
by Bruce Cannon Gibney · 7 Mar 2017 · 526pp · 160,601 words
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 22 Apr 2019 · 462pp · 129,022 words
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
by Raghuram Rajan · 26 Feb 2019 · 596pp · 163,682 words
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
by J. Bradford Delong · 6 Apr 2020 · 593pp · 183,240 words
Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity
by Claudia Goldin · 11 Oct 2021 · 445pp · 122,877 words
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson · 15 May 2023 · 619pp · 177,548 words
Broken Markets: A User's Guide to the Post-Finance Economy
by Kevin Mellyn · 18 Jun 2012 · 183pp · 17,571 words
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
by Jeffrey Sachs · 1 Jan 2008 · 421pp · 125,417 words
The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
by Brink Lindsey · 12 Oct 2017 · 288pp · 64,771 words
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
by Kevin Roose · 9 Mar 2021 · 208pp · 57,602 words
Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy
by Howard Karger · 9 Sep 2005 · 299pp · 83,854 words
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge · 27 Feb 2018 · 267pp · 72,552 words
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
by Wendy Brown · 6 Feb 2015
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg · 11 Mar 2013 · 241pp · 78,508 words
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
by Rana Foroohar · 16 May 2016 · 515pp · 132,295 words
Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America: A History of Inequality in America
by Jamie Bronstein · 29 Oct 2016 · 332pp · 89,668 words
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
by Branko Milanovic · 10 Apr 2016 · 312pp · 91,835 words
Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn
by Chris Hughes · 20 Feb 2018 · 173pp · 53,564 words
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
by Sugrue, Thomas J.
Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--And Those Fighting to Reverse It
by Steven Brill · 28 May 2018 · 519pp · 155,332 words
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
by Raghuram Rajan · 24 May 2010 · 358pp · 106,729 words
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
by Eric Posner and E. Weyl · 14 May 2018 · 463pp · 105,197 words
It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear
by Gregg Easterbrook · 20 Feb 2018 · 424pp · 119,679 words
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
by Martin Ford · 4 May 2015 · 484pp · 104,873 words
The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
by Robert H. Frank, Philip J. Cook · 2 May 2011
The Stolen Year
by Anya Kamenetz · 23 Aug 2022 · 347pp · 103,518 words
A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic
by Nicholas Eberstadt and Nick Eberstadt · 18 Oct 2012 · 105pp · 25,871 words
Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism
by Ed West · 19 Mar 2020 · 530pp · 147,851 words
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
by Dan Senor and Saul Singer · 3 Nov 2009 · 285pp · 81,743 words
Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least
by Antti Ilmanen · 24 Feb 2022
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
by Kristen R. Ghodsee · 20 Nov 2018 · 211pp · 57,759 words
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
by Daniel Markovits · 14 Sep 2019 · 976pp · 235,576 words
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson · 23 Sep 2019 · 809pp · 237,921 words
The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
by Fredrik Deboer · 3 Aug 2020 · 236pp · 77,546 words
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
by Jean M. Twenge · 25 Apr 2023 · 541pp · 173,676 words
Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
by Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz · 8 Jul 2024 · 259pp · 89,637 words
Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed With Early Achievement
by Rich Karlgaard · 15 Apr 2019 · 321pp · 92,828 words
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
by Tyler Cowen · 11 Sep 2013 · 291pp · 81,703 words
Firefighting
by Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner and Henry M. Paulson, Jr. · 16 Apr 2019
Social Democratic America
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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
by David Brooks · 8 Mar 2011 · 487pp · 151,810 words
The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era
by Ellen Ruppel Shell · 22 Oct 2018 · 402pp · 126,835 words
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
by Andrew Yang · 2 Apr 2018 · 300pp · 76,638 words
Capitalism in America: A History
by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan · 15 Oct 2018 · 585pp · 151,239 words
Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
by Silvia Federici · 4 Oct 2012 · 277pp · 80,703 words
The Rise of the Network Society
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
by Charles Murray · 1 Jan 2012 · 397pp · 121,211 words
Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 28 Jan 2020 · 408pp · 108,985 words
Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
by Dietrich Vollrath · 6 Jan 2020 · 295pp · 90,821 words
The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future
by Joseph C. Sternberg · 13 May 2019 · 336pp · 95,773 words
Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital
by Kimberly Clausing · 4 Mar 2019 · 555pp · 80,635 words
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
by Erik Baker · 13 Jan 2025 · 362pp · 132,186 words
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
by Carl Benedikt Frey · 17 Jun 2019 · 626pp · 167,836 words
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America
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Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
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Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism
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Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything
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The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke
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Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom
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No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends
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No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans
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Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . And the Rise of a New Economy
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Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
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The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System
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Men Without Work
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What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . And What Other Countries Got Right
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Basic Economics
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Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
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Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders
by Jason L. Riley · 14 May 2008 · 196pp · 53,627 words
The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson · 6 Sep 2010 · 740pp · 227,963 words
The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport: Second Edition
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Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
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The Curse of Cash
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Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day
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The Globalization of Inequality
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