![]() ![]() There's a sense that these people have lost this sense of status and belonging. There's a lot of social dysfunction building up over time. That's made it harder for them to get married. If you go back to the early '70s when you had the so-called blue-collar aristocrats, those jobs have slowly crumbled away and many more men are finding themselves in a much more hostile labor market with lower wages, lower quality and less permanent jobs. ![]() ![]() We think of this as part of the decline of the white working class. That's happened less and less the later and later you've been born and the later you enter this labor market.ĭeaton: We're thinking of this in terms of something that's been going on for a long time, something that's emerged as the iceberg has risen out of the water. In general, the longer you're in the labor force, the more you earn - in part because you understand your job better and you're more efficient at your job, you've had on-the-job training, you belong to a union, and so your wages go up with age. In turn, those people are being less able to form stable marriages, and in turn that has effects on the kind of economic and social supports that people need in order to thrive. So we are beginning to thread a story in that it's possible that consistent with the labor market collapsing for people with less than a college degree. The deeper questions were why those were happening - there's obviously some underlying malaise, reasons for which we know.Īnne Case: These deaths of despair have been accompanied by reduced labor force participation, reduced marriage rates, increases in reports of poor health and poor mental health. We knew suicides were going up rapidly, and that overdoses mostly from prescription drugs were going up, and that alcoholic liver disease was going up. We knew the proximate causes - we know what they were dying from. ![]()
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