Denne artikel “America’s ‘Men-Without-Work Crisis” fra en bog, der udkommer i 2020, dokumenterer, at der er nu over 5 millioner mænd fra 20-64 i USA, der helt har opgivet at finde et job - samtidigt med at der er mangel på arbejdskraft. Artiklen problematiserer en del årsager, men den mangler at blive suppleret med hvad disse mænd selv vil sige ...
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"In the current issue of National Affairs, Nicholas Eberstadt writesthat the US is in the midst of a male jobs crisis: “According to the latest monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, ‘work rates’ for American men in October 2019 stood very close to their 1939 levels, as reported in the 1940 U.S. Census. … Unlike the Great Depression, however, today's work crisis is not an unemployment crisis. Only a tiny fraction of workless American men nowadays are actually looking for employment. Instead we have witnessed a mass exodus of men from the workforce altogether. At this writing, nearly 7 million civilian non-institutionalized men between the ages of 25 and 54 are neither working nor looking for work—over four times as many as are formally unemployed. Between 1965 and 2015, the percentage of prime-age U.S. men not in the labor force shot up from 3.3% to 11.7%.”
Education alone can’t fix it, Eberstadt writes, offering a gloomy assessment: There are open jobs in sectors like retail and food services, but by some accounts, “positions go unfilled because of a lack of interest by non-workers, or because of unreliable applicants who do not show up for work regularly and on time, or because applicants cannot stay sober or pass drug-screening tests. These are devilishly difficult problems, rooted in far more than a lack of skills, and it seems unreasonable to expect the U.S. education system to fix such joblessness, or even make an appreciable difference.”
Nicholas Eberstadt (2020): Education and Men without Work | National Affairs. National Affairs, no 42
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