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Why have so many American men given up on work? - CBS News

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Roughly one in nine working-age men in the U.S. has dropped out of the labor force, a huge jump from the 1950s.

Many men in the U.S. leave the labor force when their earnings decline compared with their better-paid peers, new research shows. The study found that more men drop out when workers' relative earnings fall. The findings , from the Federal Reserve of Boston, help explain a trend economists have been puzzling over for decades: Why so many men have given up on the idea of holding down a job. Roughly one in nine men ages 25 to 54, an individual's prime working years, are out of the labor market today; that compared to one in 50 in the mid-1950s. The trend has been driven chiefly by working-age men

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