The US's Jobless Men
MAY 5, 2011
FUBar is on a less-regular summer schedule now, but returns today with an article from
The Economist on what the article calls one of America’s biggest economic problems: the decline in
work among men. The article presents data that indicates the impact of this
post-recession phenomenon is decreasing in men's education level - some 35% of
male high-school dropouts aged 25-54 in the US are not working. A veritable
blizzard of policy suggestions to ameliorate the problem are delineated in the
article. Meanwhile, Michael Parkin suggests that Goldin and Katz,
The Race
Between Education and Technology (Harvard University Press), might be worth
a look for a longer term perspective on this phenomenon.
