Research Report The Labor Force in an Aging and Growing America
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Mapping America’s Futures, Brief 4
Rolf Pendall
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From 2010 to 2030, patterns of labor force participation will change across regions of the United States. In some regions, the primary demographic effect will be changes in age structure, which will drive declines in labor force participation rates. In other regions, in-migration and changes in the racial and ethnic composition of the adult population will primarily increase the numbers of the “dependent population”—people not in the labor force. Still other regions will have to accommodate both sharply declining participation rates and sharply increasing nonparticipants. These diverse patterns of changes in labor force participation pose different challenges to regions.
Research Areas Economic mobility and inequality Neighborhoods, cities, and metros
Tags Labor force
Policy Centers Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population