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A profile of husbands in today's labor market

By most measures, married men have always epitomized labor market success. At any time, the vast majority are in the labor force working full-time, and their earnings are generally much higher than those of other major labor force groups. Furthermore, their unemployment rate is usually well below the national average. Despite husbands' relative labor market advantages, the proportion who are labor force participants has been falling for several decades.

Relatively little attention has been focused on husbands' labor force characteristics in recent years, partly because they have been overshadowed by the ...

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