Self-Employment and Labor Force Participation of Older Males
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A Traditional explanation for the fall in the labor force participation of older males in the era of industrialization is that it was in part produced by the decline in agriculture. A number of recent studies rejected this view based on the result that farmers were no less likely to retire than were nonfarmers. An examination of a longer period, however, shows that farmers were less likely to r...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Human Resources
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0022-166X
DOI: 10.2307/145584