The share of U.S. prime-age workers holding or seeking jobs has picked up in recent years but remains well below the rates of other developed economies, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released Wednesday.
The so-called labor-force participation rate of such workers, ages 25 to 54, fell sharply after the financial crisis to a recent low of 80.7% in the third quarter of 2015. The figure has increased since then to 81.7% in the fourth quarter of last year.
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