employment-population ratio

US / The historic decline in the employment-population ratios

‘The decline in the employment-population ratios for men and women over 2000–07, just before the Great Recession, represents a historic turnaround in U.S. employment trends’ writes Robert A. Moffitt in The Reversal of the Employment- Population Ratio in the 2000s: Facts and Explanations on brookings.edu. (Adapted chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor to follow) The decline is disproportionately concentrated among the less … Continue reading →