Occupational human capital and earnings losses of displaced workers: does the degree of similarity between pre- and post-displacement occupations matter?

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 6 The earnings losses regression based on the 2-and 1-digit occupation levels

	Dependent variable: difference in log of real weekly earnings ($2010; OLS)
Independent variable	(1)	(2)	(3)
Same occupation (2-digit)	0.124
	(7.49)
Same industry (2-digit)	0.081	0.072	0.076
	(4.84)	(4.29)	(4.53)
Transferability*100 (2-digit)		0.0035	0.0134
		(9.25)	(2.91)
Transferability² (2-digit)			− 0.0001
			(− 2.17)
N	6827	6827	6827
Adj. R ²	0.0818	0.0854	0.0861
Same occupation (1-digit)	0.116
	(6.69)
Same industry (1-digit)	0.089	0.086	0.086
	(5.2)	(5.09)	(5.07)
Transferability*100 (1-digit)		0.028	0.0034
		(7.18)	(0.67)
Transferability² (1-digit)			0.0000
			(− 0.12)
N	6827	6827	6827
Adj. R ²	0.0810	0.0819	0.0818