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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and detailed analysis of the factors that determine who is in the labor force in the United States is equally interesting for the light it sheds on what people are not working or seeking work-and why they are not. The effects on labor force participation rates of both individual characteristics (e.g. age, marital status, color, e
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. v*Table of Contents, pg. ix*List of Tables, pg. xvii*List of Figures, pg. xxiv*CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Scope, Organization, and the Labor Force Concept, pg. 3*CHAPTER 2. The Conceptual Framework and Method of Analysis, pg. 16*CHAPTER 3. Prime-Age Males: Individual Characteristics, pg. 39*CHAPTER 4. Prime-Age Males: Labor Market Conditions, pg. 75*CHAPTER 5. Married Women: Individual Characteristics, pg. 88*CHAPTER 6. Married Women: Labor Market Conditions, pg. 159*CHAPTER 7. Trends in the Participation of Married Women, pg. 197*CHAPTER 8. Single Women 25-54, pg. 242*CHAPTER 9. Older Persons: Individual Characteristics, pg. 270*CHAPTER 10. Older Persons: Labor Market Conditions, pg. 335*CHAPTER 11. Trends in the Participation of Older Persons, pg. 351*CHAPTER 12. Younger Persons: Individual Characteristics, pg. 380*CHAPTER 13. Younger Persons: Labor Market Conditions, pg. 419*CHAPTER 14. Younger Males: Trends in Participation, Enrollment, and Activity Rates, pg. 458*CHAPTER 15. Unemployment and Labor Force Participation: Cross-Sectional Relations, pg. 479*CHAPTER 16. Unemployment and Labor Force Participation: Time-Series Relations, pg. 505*CHAPTER 17. Unemployment and Labor Force Participation: Some Evidence from the 1963-1967 Boom, pg. 530*Chapter Appendices, pg. 539*General Appendices, pg. 629*Index, pg. 889
