{"id":293271,"date":"2010-02-08T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-employment-to-population-ratio-male-25-54-years-old-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-08T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T17:50:00","slug":"chart-of-the-day-remember-when-men-used-to-have-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/293271","title":{"rendered":"CHART OF THE DAY: Remember When Men Used To Have Jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Men between the ages of 25-54 are frequently described as being “working-age,” because, well, they’re expected to be working.<\/p>\n

But as this chart, via Brad Delong<\/a>, shows, that’s happening less and less.<\/p>\n

Nearly 20% of men in this age group are out of the workforce, and none of the overall second-derivative labor market improvements seem to be helping much. How this trend impacts society more broadly should be interesting, to say the least.<\/p>\n

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