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

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Publication Year: 2004

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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.

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Authors: Chin, Aimee

Publisher: University of Houston

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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