Gender Differences in Displacement Cost: Evidence and Implications
利用新数据集估计男女失业后的工资损失差异，发现女性损失更大且随工龄增加，不支持女性积累较少企业特定人力资本的假设，建议关注求职过程的性别差异。
This paper uses a unique and newly available data set on displaced workers to estimate differences in the wage costs of displacement between women and men. While predisplacement wages rise at about the same rate with tenure for women as men in this data set, women lose more from displacement than men, and the magnitude of this loss increases with tenure. Overall, we interpret our results as not supportive of the specific hypothesis that women accumulate less firmspecific human capital than men and we suggest that future attempts to explain our result focus on gender differences in the process of search for a new job.