“If the increasing wage gap between high and low earners directly or indirectly affects men’s aggregate labor supply, wage inequality might have carried wider implications to the economy than previously believed,” Wu wrote.
https://fortune.com/2022/12/07/men-dropping-out-work-force-status-study/
Are they really dropping out, or are they dead/dying from covid?
and suicide because their life insurance will provide more for their family than their wages.
The thing about life insurance is that it's hard for you to defend yourself in court after you're dead and especially of you're already poor they'll probably just refuse the claim.
Suicide negates life insurance coverage in most cases for obvious reasons
there's like a vesting period in the ones i've heard of, and there's always riding a bike dangerously.
Maybe a little bit of both
I guess you could say I'm under employed at the moment and have considered getting a part time job that I could work around, but most of that means interacting with a large swath of the disease ridden public and I'd like to avoid brain damage.
As you should. Screw that noise.
one of the things was talking about men from 35-44 so they are probably not dead/dying from covid
If it's long covid, just give it a few more years.
There has been about 60,000 deaths from covid in the age range of 30-49. I couldn't find the rate of long covid for that age range, but the cdc estimates about 20 million adults suffer from it.
Absolutely but this article was talking about an increased trend found in non college educated men, and not found in college educated men and women of any education. And everyone is gettin Covid
There may be something to it, but also... the pandemic destroyed a lot of low wage jobs. And I remember the inital covid wave hit low wage workers particularly hard, health wise, because those are jobs typically public facing and you can't do them from home.
That's a good point