Age-adjusted labor force participation rates, 1960�45 (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, September 2002

Age-adjusted labor force participation rates, 1960�45

Robert F. Szafran
Professor, Department of Sociology, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas.
Email: rszafran@sfasu.edu

A proposed new age-adjusted labor force participation rate eliminates the effect of changes in the age distribution; according to the new criterion, increases in women抯 labor force participation from 1960�00 would have been even greater if shifts in the age distribution had not occurred.

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