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SOCIOLOGY
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Primary age labor force participation..............................................................................................2

Impact of having a criminal record..................................................................................................2

Spending of free time.......................................................................................................................2

Bibliography....................................................................................................................................4
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Primary age labor force participation

Prime age labor force participation is the better measure for understanding changes as compared
to labor force participation. Moreover, labor force participation is supportive in looking at the
changes within the labor market but there is the availability of narrower statistics in the case of
prime-age labor force participation. Mainly studies of labor force participation focus on prime-
age labor force participation that leads to limiting the number of people to those people ages 25
years to 54 years. All these kinds of people are less likely to be retired or within the school;
therefore, prime-age labor force participation emphasizes at the direct level on those that are
likely to be functioning or looking for work. The rate of prime-age male labor force participation
at a considerable level varies through geography which in the case of male labor force
participation is not present. In most of the nation's prime-age male labor force participation are
within the populated metropolitan statistical area in many districts (Bls, 2021).

Impact of having a criminal record

There is a negative impact of having a criminal record on the employment status of men.
Incarceration is a challenge that is mentioned within the discussion of men that are out of the
labor force. A Survey of 2014 presented that almost a third of the nonworking prime-age men
have criminal-level records (Census, 2020). A record at the criminal level leads to making people
not eligible for many jobs. This leads to creating many employers hesitant in relation to
employment. One of the papers in the year 2015 through University of Michigan economist
Michael Mueller Smith utilized data from Harris County, Texas in relation to referring that every
additional year in relation to incarceration leads to minimizing post-release employment through
3.6% points. This has been referred that reemployment for those at a specific level with felony
charges among those that were working before all charges minimizes through at least 24% within
the time period of five years after the release of workers. These kinds of reductions within the
opportunities of employment result in the minimized potential of income.
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Spending of free time

A huge amount of data from a 2019 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) refer to present that
men without their employment on a continuing basis spend almost 49 minutes more every day in
comparison to the full time employed males on activities of the household and they on a daily
basis even less time in comparison to the full time employed males on caring for members of the
household. These prefer the biggest level of difference within the time utilized between working
as well as non-working males is the amount of spend time on activity of sport and leisure
(Census, 2021). This has been identified that nonworking mend spends more than 3.6 more hours
in a day on all these kinds of actions in comparison to the males with their full-time employment.
Overall it can be concluded that unemployed men are spending their free time doing household-
related work in comparison to caring for household members.
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Bibliography
Bls, 2021. Western Information Office. [Online]

Available at: https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/

[Accessed 19 11 2021].

Census, 2020. American Community Survey 5-Year Data (2009-2019). [Online]

Available at: https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-5year.html

[Accessed 19 11 2021].

Census, 2021. Annual Social and Economic Supplements. [Online]

Available at: https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/time-series/demo/cps/cps-asec.html

[Accessed 19 11 2021].