Missing Men:World War II Casualties and Structural Change

Christoph Eder

No 229, HiCN Working Papers from Households in Conflict Network

Abstract: A shock to the sector composition of the local labor market can affect long-run economic development of a location. Because structural change ultimately shifts labor from agriculture to services, an early transition to manufacturing may hamper longrun prosperity. The identification strategy exploits military World War II (WWII) casualties in Austrian municipalities as an exogenous shock to the local labor market. WWII casualties shifted labor out of agriculture into manufacturing in the short-run, which eventually led to a differential path of structural change. In the long-run, I find a strong and robust negative effect of WWII casualties on subsequent economic output.

Keywords: Spatial equilibrium; local labor markets; structural change; World War II; Austria. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J40 N14 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2016-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-gro, nep-his and nep-lma
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