Photographer: Shutterstock Where did all the jobs go? Well, we’re finally starting to find some satisfactory answers to the granddaddy of all economic questions.
The share of Americans with jobs dropped 4.5 percentage points from 1999 to 2016 – amounting to about 6.8 million fewer workers in 2016.
Between 50 and 70 percent of that decline probably was due to an aging population. Explaining the remainder has been the inspiration for much of the economic research published after the Great Recession.Economists and politicians have pointed at immigration, China, video games, robots, opioids, universities, working spouses – everything up to and including […]
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