Jopp, Tobias A. (2021) War, Coal, and Forced Labor: Assessing the Impact of Prisoner-of-War Employment on Coal Mine Productivity in World War I Germany. JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, 81 (3). pp. 763-791. ISSN 0022-0507, 1471-6372
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This paper assesses the causal relationship between POW assignments and labor productivity for a vital sector of the German World War I economy, namely coal mining. Prisoners of war (POWs) provided significant labor. Combining data on all Ruhr mines with a treatment-effects approach, I find that POW employment alone accounted for 36 percent of the average POW-employing mine's annual productivity decline over wartime. Estimates also suggest that the representative POW's productivity averaged 32 percent of the representative regular miner's productivity and that POWs' contribution to wartime coal output amounted to 3.9 percent. Violence did not serve as a powerful work incentive.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ITALIAN PRISONERS; SLAVERY; POLICIES |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences 900 History & geography > 940 General history of Europe |
| Divisions: | Philosophy, Art History, History, and Humanities > Institut für Geschichte > Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte - Prof. Dr. Mark Spoerer |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2022 07:33 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2022 07:33 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/46005 |
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