Economic Effects-Internees had very short notice to gather their belongings and go to the internment camps
-Internees could only take clothes, bedding, and utensils to the camps -They were forced to sell their homes, shops, furniture, and any clothes or other items they could not carry with them -Since the Japanese Americans had very little time to sell belongings, they sold them for very cheap prices -Internees lost property because of fire sales before internment, an inability to manage property and mortgages while interned, and having stored property in poor storage facilities where it was stolen or damaged -Interned Japanese-Americans lost an estimated $150 million in property alone |
-The internment camps reduced, or, in some cases, eliminated job opportunities and labor market wages for internees -Even twenty-five years after internment, former internee's wages were nine to thirteen percent lower than their counterparts' -The jobs that internees held at the camps were not good practive for jobs in the real world, so interned workers lost skills -Internment camps made people lose enthusiasm in work because the interned workers did not want to devote their best efforts to a government which did not trust them and disliked them |