The Rise and Fall of Female Labor Force Participation During World War II in the United States
利用二战期间就业和职位安置的新数据，研究发现工业动员而非男性参军是女性战时工作的主要驱动力，战后退伍军人返乡和军工削减导致新入职女性大量失业，1950年女性劳动参与率受战时影响有限。
I use new data on employment and job placements during WWII to characterize the wartime surge in female work and its subsequent impact on female employment in the United States. The geography of female wartime work was primarily driven by industrial mobilization, not drafted men’s withdrawal from local labor markets. After the war, returning veterans and sharp cutbacks in war-related industries displaced many new female entrants, despite interest in continued work. As a result, areas most exposed to wartime work show limited overall effects on female labor force participation in 1950 and only marginal increases in durables manufacturing employment.