“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/

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    And if you're a woman you're pretty much guaranteed to have a shit social status at work unless you're a girlboss

    Not sayng men don't also feel like shit, just sort of... Welcome to the club, you know? Don't know why the focus of the article is just dudes.

    • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Men without four-year college degrees, between the ages of 25 and 54, have left the workforce in higher numbers than other groups. Non-college-educated men have seen their pay shrink by more than 30% since 1980 compared to the average earnings of all other prime-age workers. Their weekly earnings have declined 17%, while those of college-educated men rose by 20%, adjusting for inflation

      non-college educated men had a pay decrease so they left the workforce more

      Unlike men, women have not seen the same level of decline in their wages based on education. That group has seen a 32% increase in weekly earnings, irrespective of their educational qualifications.

      the trajectories are different so the article focused on men