失业总是对年轻人造成巨大的打击,这也降低了重新接受全日制教育的机会成本。而联邦佩尔奖学金以及大学课税减免的额度亦大幅提升,可以用来支付开销,前者更是由2007-08学年的550万美金上升至2011-12年的960万美金,这也很好地解释了为什么08年以后仍坚持工作的学生的比例急剧下降。
This trend sheds light on one of the central mysteries of the recovery: why so many peoplehave left the labour force. The proportion of the working-age population that is working orlooking for work has fallen from 66% in 2007 to below 64% inJanuary. This has been an important part of the reduction in the headline unemploymentfigure. With fewer people entering the labour force, there are fewer job hunters to becounted as unemployed.
这一趋势使得经济复苏最核心之谜浮出水面:人们放弃劳动之谜。2007年适龄劳动人口中工作或正在求职的比例为66%,而到了今年一月份,这一比例下降到了64%,这是占据报纸头版头条的失业率下降的主要原因。进入劳动力市场的人越少,被统计的求职人员也就越少。
The drop has been by far the largest among 16-to-24-year-olds; their participation rate hasdropped almost five percentage points since 2007. Alan Krueger, the chairman of Mr ObamasCouncil of Economic Advisers, reckons this can explain almost a third of the drop in theoverall participation rate.
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