Only about a quarter of self-employed people 3. The BLS estimate, derived from a survey of households, may undercount the self-employed. According to the Internal Revenue Service , there were In , Millennials surpassed Generation Xers ages 39 to 54 in to become the single largest generational group in the U.
But evidence suggests that as women enter the responsibilities of parenthood their earnings fall further behind same-aged male counterparts. Several other factors are believed to contribute to the persistence of the gender wage gap, among them the impact of broader family caregiving responsibilities, differences in the industries and occupations in which women and men work, workplace gender discrimination, and differences in workforce experience.
The gender gap is just one of several gaps in earnings that characterize the American workforce. Despite the pressures of academic life, soaring college costs and burdensome student loans, young college graduates were better off than their degreeless peers on many measures of economic well-being and career attainment, and to a greater extent than in the past.
The pay gap was significantly smaller in previous generations. In July, according to BLS data, only 2. Teens spend 26 minutes a day, on average, doing paid work during the school year, compared with 49 minutes about a decade ago and 57 minutes in the mids, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of time use data from the BLS.
Teens also are working less during the summer. As recently as two decades ago, roughly half of U. But the share of teens working summer jobs has dwindled since the early s: After bottoming out in and at In , In , the first year for which comparable data is available, there were about 11 million NEETs in the U. Two-thirds of U. In July of this year, Older workers represented 6. United States Employed Persons. In the United States, employed persons are individuals with a minimum required age who work during a certain time for a business.
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