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

Aimee Chin

Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, vol. 23, issue 3, 491-526

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 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.

Date: 2005
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