Stewart, Jay. (2004) "What Do Male Nonworkers Do?" Although male
nonworkers have become a larger fraction of the population since
the late 1960s, labor economists know very little about them.
Using data from several sources—the March CPS, the National
Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and the 1992-94 University of
Maryland Time Diary Study—this paper fills that void. The
picture that emerges is that there is a small cadre of marginal
workers who often do not work for periods of a year or more and
tend to work relatively few weeks in the years that they do
work. The vast majority of nonworking men (men who do not work
at all during the year) receive unearned income from at least
one source, and the amount of unearned income received varies
significantly by reason for not working. Family members provide
an important alternative source of support for nonworking men
who have little or no unearned income of their own. For the most
part, these nonworking men are not substituting nonmarket work
for market work. Most of