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Hispanic Pundit. Crooked Timber — Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no strai. Heavy Lifting. DataPoints. Labor Market Gains Not Sparking a Single-Family Housing Recovery Oct 7, 2015 | By Adam Ozimek • The unemployment rate is marching ever lower, and the economy is approaching full employment, but still single-family housing is lagging. This is prompting some to wonder, what will it take to turn things around? One suggestion is that once unemployment falls low enough we’ll see the long-awaited single-family housing recovery. If this were true, one would expect that metro areas with already-lower... A Simple Rule for Understanding Unions Sep 30, 2015 | By Adam Ozimek • Though their membership ranks continue a long historical decline, unions seem to be back in the headlines again as workers and policymakers search for ways to boost wage growth.

Why Is Hiring Slow? Sep 24, 2015 | By Adam Ozimek • As the U.S. economy nears its fifth straight year of steady job growth, economy watchers are looking nervously for signs of labor market tightness. The Bruce Web: History, Politics, Myth. Growth Commission Blog | -Exchanging Views on Growth and Develop. Demography.matters.blog. Bronte Capital. Globalisation and the Environment. Core Economics. History of Economics Playground. Global Macro Edge. Greed, Green and Grains. Bubble Meter: A housing bubble blog. Creative Class® The source on how we live, work and play. Dani Rodrik's weblog. Economics. Diamond Slice. Coyote Blog. Market Talk. Creative Destruction. Derivative Dribble. Better Economics. Deirdre N. McCloskey: Home Page. Macrobuddies - Economic Insight and Analysis. Macroblog. April 10, 2014 Reasons for the Decline in Prime-Age Labor Force Participation As a follow up to this post on recent trends in labor force participation, we look specifically at the prime-age group of 25- to 54-year-olds.

The participation decisions of this age cohort are less affected by the aging population and the longer-term trend toward lower participation of youths because of rising school enrollment rates. In that sense, they give us a cleaner window on responses of participation to changing business cycle conditions. The labor force participation rate of the prime-age group fell from 83 percent just before the Great Recession to 81 percent in 2013.

We look at the various reasons people cite for not participating in the labor force from the monthly Current Population Survey. Those who say they don't want a job because they are disabled have a relatively low propensity to subsequently (re)enter the labor force. By Melinda Pitts, director, Center for Human Capital Studies, Division of Labour. Macroeconomic Thought over the Last Fifty Years. Mahalanobis.