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January 9, 2024

Post-Pandemic Recovery for America’s Prime Age Labor Force: A Tale of Two Sexes

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) “monthly jobs report” last Friday closed the book on 2023, recording a continuing expansion of both labor supply and paid work in America last…

July 27, 2023

Time to Do Something About the NILFs

…with “deaths of despair,” incarceration, and single parenthood. As Nicholas Eberstadt has documented, men who are “not in the labor force” (NILF) are alarmingly disengaged from others and overly self-focused. According to federal time-use surveys, NILFs do very…

September 19, 2022

Men Without Work in the Post-Pandemic Era

…a.m. Presentation: Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, AEI 10:50 a.m. Panel Discussion Panelists: Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, AEI Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W….