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Title: Long‐Run Labor Market Effects of Japanese American Internment during World War II on Working‐Age Male Internees

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2005

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ISSN: 0734-306X

DOI: 10.1086/430285

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Abstract: 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 nine to thirteen percent twenty-five years afterwards. 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.

Url: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/430285

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Authors: Chin, Aimee

Periodical (Full): Journal of Labor Economics

Issue: 3

Volume: 23

Pages: 491-525

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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