Impact ofWWI Military Fatalities on Wages, Foreign Labor, and Capital
| Panel A: Manufacturing Log Wages | Panel B: Domestic Log Wages | Panel C: Foreign Labor | Panel D: Engine Power | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ironer (1) | Seamstress (2) | Milliner (3) | Cook (4) | Housekeeper (5) | LFP (6) | Share Pop. (7) | Log Total (8) | Per Worker (9) | ||
| Death rate × post | −0.011*** [0.004] | −0.011*** [0.003] | −0.007** [0.004] | −0.006*** [0.002] | −0.002* [0.001] | −0.11 [0.22] | −0.09 [0.06] | 0.03** [0.01] | 6.58*** [2.37] | |
| Controls | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Observations | 355 | 355 | 355 | 171 | 171 | 261 | 261 | 261 | 261 | |
| Départements | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | |
| Within R2 | 0.951 | 0.953 | 0.951 | 0.900 | 0.948 | 0.468 | 0.646 | 0.858 | 0.249 | |
| Pre-war levels | 0.21 | 0.23 | 0.25 | 0.20 | 0.13 | 35.0 | 2.26 | 29,782 | 35.76 | |
Notes: This table reports OLS coefficients from estimating Specification 1. All regressions include département and year fixed effects, and controls for the share of rural population in percent and the share of population born in the département in percent. The dependent variable is log hourly wage rate in Columns 1–5, labor force participation rates of foreigners in percent in Column 6, the share of foreigners in the population in percent in Column 7, the log total power of engines in kW in Column 8, and the power of engines per 100 workers in the industrial sector in kW in Column 9. Survey years are 1901, 1906, 1911, 1921, and 1926 in Columns 1–3; 1913 and 1921 in Columns 4 and 5; 1911, 1921, and 1926 in Columns 6 and 7; and 1901, 1906, and 1926 in Columns 8 and 9. Standard errors are in brackets and are clustered at the département level. Significance:
↵* p < 0.10,
↵** p < 0.05,
↵*** p < 0.01.