Not marching in lockstep

Not marching in lockstep

A study of more than 4,500 male baby boomers found that fewer than half spent their prime working years continuously employed.

Exit from
labor
force
10%

Intermittent work
11%

1

Increasingly unemployed
13%

2

Increasingly steady
work
25%

Steady work
participation
41%

1 Intermittent work 2 Increasingly unemployed

Source: The Myth of Men’s Stable, Continuous Labor Force Attachment: Multitrajectories of U.S. Baby Boomer Men’s EmploymentGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper