Long‐Run Labor Market Effects of Japanese American Internment during World War II on Working‐Age Male Internees
利用夏威夷日裔未被大规模拘禁这一事实，研究1942年西海岸日裔被拘禁对男性被拘禁者25年后年收入的长期影响，发现收入下降9%至13%。
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.