Occupational Human Capital and Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers:Does the Degree of Similarity between Pre-and Post-Displacement Occupations Matter?
This paper examines the effect of accumulated human capital,and particularly occupational human capital,on the earnings losses of displaced workers.Unlike previous studies on job displacement,this paper uses a continuous measure of occupational skills transferability to measure the similarity between the pre- and post-displacement occupations of reemployed displaced workers.Using the 2004 and 2006 Displaced Worker Survey (DWS),the main finding is that post-displacement earnings losses are highly correlated with the degree of similarity between pre- and post-displacement occupations.Displaced workers who find jobs in occupations similar to their previous jobs suffer smaller earnings losses than those who find less similar jobs.This relationship is non-linear in that higher skills transferability lowers the earnings losses at a decreasing rate as the transferability of occupational skills increases.
Job displacement Occupational human capital Skills transferability Earnings losses
Kritkorn Nawakitphaitoon Russell Ormiston
School of Human Resources and Labor Relations,Michigan State University,MI,48823,USA Department of Economics,Allegheny College,Meadville,PA,16335,USA
国内会议
西安
英文
1-30
2012-10-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）