Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 11 Descriptive statistics for sampled DWS and Full DWS (2004–2010)

From: Occupational human capital and earnings losses of displaced workers: does the degree of similarity between pre- and post-displacement occupations matter?Berufliches Humankapital und Einkommensverluste von freigesetzten Arbeitskräften: Wie sehr kommt es darauf, dass sich die Beschäftigungsverhältnisse vor und nach dem Arbeitsplatzverlust ähneln?

	Full DWS		Sampled DWS
Variable	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Female (0/1)	0.44	0.50	0.44	0.50
Weekly pay at the current job ($)	677.47	598.44	685.01	575.42
Age	41.13	13.01	39.43	11.25
Less than high school (0/1)	0.10	0.30	0.07	0.26
High school (0/1)	0.34	0.47	0.33	0.47
Some college (0/1)	0.31	0.46	0.33	0.47
College (0/1)	0.18	0.38	0.20	0.40
Advanced college (0/1)	0.07	0.26	0.07	0.25
Married (0/1)	0.53	0.50	0.56	0.50
White (0/1)	0.70	0.46	0.75	0.44
Black (0/1)	0.11	0.31	0.09	0.28
Number of workers	27,540		6827

DWS Displaced Worker Survey

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