TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mulligan,Casey B.
TI  - Pecuniary Incentives to Work in the U.S. during World War II
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6326
PY  - 1997
Y2  - December 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6326
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6326.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Casey B. Mulligan
University of Chicago
Department of Economics
1126 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL  60637
Tel: 773/702-9017
Fax: 773/702-8490
E-Mail: c-mulligan@uchicago.edu
AB  - It is argued that changes in workers' budget sets cannot explain the dramatic increases in" civilian work in the U.S. during World War II.  Although money wages grew during the period wartime after-tax real wages were lower than either before or after the war.  Evidence from the" 1940's also appears to be inconsistent with other pecuniary explanations such as wealth effects of" government policies, intertemporal substitution induced by asset prices and changes in the nonmarket price of time.  Although untested and relatively undeveloped nonpecuniary models of behavior are tempting explanations for wartime work."
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