Industry-Specific Human Capital: Evidence from Displaced Workers
利用失业工人调查数据，发现转行后工资损失与之前的工作经验和任期高度相关，表明存在行业特定技能，且公司特定因素对工资-任期曲线影响不大。
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. Copyright 1995 by University of Chicago Press.