Brookings – Trends: Reduced Earnings for Men in America

Trends: Reduced Earnings for Men in America, by Michael greenstone and Adam Looney

  • “Over the past 40 years, a period in which U.S. GDP per capita more than doubled after adjusting for inflation, the annual earnings of the median prime-aged male has actually fallen by 28 percent. Indeed, males at the middle of the wage distribution now earn about the same as their counterparts in the 1950s! This decline reflects both stagnant wages for men on the job, and the fact that, compared with 1969, three times as many men of working age don’t work at all.”
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