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Betsey Stevenson is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan and previously served as the chief economist at the U.S. Labor Department. Today, she joins the show to discuss her experience working at the Labor Department at a time of high unemployment as well as her more recent research on challenges in the U.S. labor market. Specifically, she talks about the problem of decreased male labor force participation and why \u201cmanly men need to do more girly jobs.\u201d David\u2019s blog: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/ Macro Musings podcast site: https://macromusings.com/ David\u2019s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth Betsey Stevenson\u2019s University of Michigan profile: http://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/betsey-stevenson Betsey Stevenson\u2019s Twitter: @BetseyStevenson Related links: \u201cManly Men Need to More Girly Jobs\u201d by Betsey Stevenson https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-07/manly-men-need-to-do-more-girly-jobs \u201cWant to Help the Economy? Learn to Trust\u201d by Betsey Stevenson https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-05/want-to-help-the-economy-learn-to-trust \u201cTrust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle\u201d by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers http://users.nber.org/~bstevens/Papers/TrustinPublicInstitutions.pdf