Long-run labor market effects of Japanese American internment during World War II on working-age male internees

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chin, A
• 署名单位: University of Houston System; University of Houston
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/430285
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 491-525
• 关键词: follow-up; korean conflict; PRISONERS; mortality

摘要

In 1942, all Japanese were evacuated from the West Coast and incarcerated in internment camps. To investigate the long-run economic consequences of this historic episode, I exploit the fact that Hawaiian Japanese were not subject to mass internment. I find that the labor market withdrawal induced by the internment reduced the annual earnings of males by as much as 9%-13% 25 years afterward. This is consistent with the predictions of an economic model that equates the labor market withdrawal induced by the internment with a loss of civilian labor market experience or a loss of advantageous job matches.