Monday 10 October 2011

Declining participation rates.



I pointed out here a few weeks ago that the US labour market started deteriorating well before the current recession. Or to be more accurate, the participation rate seemed to be on the decline.

Here is a more striking chart showing the same thing. (HT to Mish). Perhaps returning to pre credit crunch participation rates is not on.







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