INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC HUMAN-CAPITAL - EVIDENCE FROM DISPLACED WORKERS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: NEAL, D
• 署名单位: National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/298388
• 发表日期: 1995
• 页码: 653-677
• 关键词: interindustry wage differentials; job seniority; earnings; duration; mobility; turnover; losses; rise; firm

摘要

Results from the Displaced Worker Surveys show that the wage cost of switching industries following displacement is strongly correlated with predisplacement measures of both work experience and tenure. Workers apparently receive compensation for some skills that are neither completely general nor firm-specific but rather specific to their industry or line of work. Further, among displaced workers who find new jobs in their predisplacement industry, postdisplacement returns to predisplacement job tenure resemble cross-section estimates of the returns to current seniority. This suggests that firm-specific factors may contribute little to the observed slope of wage tenure profiles.