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May 7, 2025
Workforce Participation for Older Americans: Warning Lights Flashing
Over the past generation, the work trends for older Americans were one of the bright spots in an otherwise decidedly mixed labor force picture. But that is no longer the…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…SCP Report No. 3-18, 2018, https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2018/9/inactive-disconnected-and-ailing-a-portrait-of-prime-age-men-out-of-the-labor-force. Nicholas Eberstadt, Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis (Templeton Press, 2016). [47] Nicholas Eberstadt, “Education and Men without Work,” National Affairs, 2020, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/education-and-men-without-work. [48]…
January 25, 2024
On the Front Porch with Brent Orrell and Tony Pipa: A Conversation with Nicholas F. Jacobs
…Mr. Orrell and Mr. Pipa spoke with Nicholas F. Jacobs, the author of The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America, a recent book that examines the state of politics in rural America….
September 6, 2023
Working from Home Has Increased More Modestly Than Many Believe
…percent given by the SWAA—just over half as large. In conversation over email, WFH Research’s Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis indicated that they do not believe the ACS provides a…
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…
January 1, 2023
Perspective: Is your boss on your DOS? How remote work monitoring can work
…managers fear someone, somewhere isn’t working as hard they could. Much of this concern seems to be misplaced. Stanford University’s Nicholas Bloom and his research team estimate productivity will significantly increase simply due…
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….