Firm Age and Wages

虽然我们对人类的特征有很多了解， 个人和经济结果是相关的， 关于公司特征之间的关联（除了 规模和工会化）和劳动力市场现象。一个关键 公司的特点是年龄。该项目将重点关注 与年龄相关的生存相关差异 企业的特点以及企业规模等属性 或工业。 该项目首先分析了公司的年龄和工资， 包括平均关系的大小和符号， 检查设置中是否偏离此标准。试图 将解释为什么存在这样的差异，以及它们是如何 能在合理竞争的产品市场上坚持下去。 现有数据集将用于分析，包括 最低工资雇主调查和英国工作场所工业 关系调查。然而，该项目的主要部分将涉及 将估计的雇主年龄与数据文件中的观察结果相匹配 缺乏对雇主年龄的明确衡量， 样品和工人特征的更多细节。具体地说， 邓白氏公司或经济分析局 获取企业平均年龄信息的商业模式 按行业规模和地区将与个人记录相匹配 在当前的人口调查中。此外， 消费者调查将包括一些问题， 要控制的工人特征。这个新的数据集 将通过数据档案提供给其他 经济学研究者。

Although a great deal is known about how the characteristics of individuals and economic outcomes are related, much less is known about the association between characteristics of firms (other than size and unionization) and labor market phenomena. A key characteristic of firms is their age. This project will focus on the age related differences in the survival-relevant characteristics of firms as well as attributes such as firm size or industry. The project begins with an analysis of firm age and wages, including the size and sign of the relationship on average and checks for departures from this norm across settings. An attempt will be made to explain why such differentials exist and how they can persist in reasonable competitive product markets. Existing data sets will be utilized for the analysis, including the Minimum Wage Employer Survey and the British Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. However, a major part of the project will involve matching estimates of age of employer to observations in data files which lack an explicit measure of employer age but have large samples and more detail on worker characteristics. Specifically, the Dun and Bradstreet or the Bureau of Economic Analysis County Business Patterns which obtain information on average age of firm by industry size and region will be matched to individual records in the Current Population Survey. In addition, a supplement to the Survey of Consumers would include questions which would enable worker characteristics to be controlled for. This new data set would be made available through a data archive for other researchers in economics.