convinced that improving employment indicators mask pervasive hardship cite the increase in the number of prime-age men (those … between the ages of 25 and 54) who are neither working nor looking for work; that is, men who are out of the labor force, or …. This paper attempts to clarify why inactivity in the labor force among prime-age men has grown so steadily for so long. It …

The Productivity Commission Staff Working Paper, 'Men not at Work: An Analysis of Men Outside the Workforce' (by Ralph … Lattimore), was released in January 2007. This paper analyses the characteristics of adult men outside the labour force in … Australia. The paper finds that, in contrast to women, the rates at which men are disengaged from the labour force have …

This chapter presents a survey on the labor supply of men. This survey of male labor supply covers the determinants of … whether men work for pay in the labor market and, if so, the determinants of their hours of work. The chapter also discusses … the work behavior of men prior to their retirement from the labor force. Moreover, even though there are noteworthy …

-college prime-age men over the last four decades is estimated to have raised their labor force exit propensity by 0.49 percentage …