September 24, 2016

Why American Men Choose Not to Work

Probably since time immemorial, each generation has thought the next one lacked industriousness. But for the last half-century, this belief has been true of American men. Even as the economy has grown, a rising share of prime-age males have opted out of work.

Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis, a brief book by Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, drives this point home forcefully, drawing on an impressive array of data to explain what's happening and why.

The chart that forms the core of Eberstadt's case depicts the percentage of men age 25-54 who do not have a job.

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