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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 6.
Published in final edited form as: Brookings Pap Econ Act. 2017 Fall;2017(2):1–87. doi: 10.1353/eca.2017.0012

Figure 5.

Figure 5

The Labor Force Participation Rate for Men Age 25–54 by Educational Attainment, 1948–2017a

Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; National Bureau of Economic Research. a. Shading denotes recessions. The data are not seasonally adjusted, annual averages. The 2017 data point is the average of data from January through May.