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September 2002

Age-adjusted labor force participation rates, 1960-2045

Robert F. Szafran

A proposed new age-adjusted labor force participation rate eliminates the effect of changes in the age distribution; according to the new criterion, increases in women's labor force participation from 1960 -2000 would have been even greater if shifts in the age distribution had not occurred.

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