The Evolution of Modern Labor Markets

所有规模的公司的雇佣关系都发生了变化 自世纪以来，随着美国的工薪阶层从 小企业到大企业。 简单地说， 从劳动力现货市场向隐性市场转变， 明确的合同关系。 本项目的目的是 分析企业之间关系变化的维度 以及这种变化关系的含义 为了经济。 这项研究非常及时， 重要的是，鉴于联合国系统的持续和重大重组， 美国经济及其对美国经济的影响 工人 有待检验的基本论点是， 市场，工人经常参与非生产性的 流动性，被一种侵犯劳动产权的制度所取代 更充分地利用劳动力。 劳动 工会、失业保险和其他劳工保护 促进了变化，但它也带来了其他 力. 这一演变的各个方面将得到更多的分析 彻底，如失业和整个工资结构， 世纪。 此外，几个相关问题也将在 研究包括返回一般和具体的人 资本，雇佣关系的长度，规定 福利、行业间工资差异以及 移民问题。 一些必要的数据集已经存在，但在 此外，还将收集大量公司级记录样本 揭示20世纪20年代工人与公司关系的细节， 世纪。

Employment relationships across all sizes of firms were altered since the 19th century, as wage-earners in America moved from small enterprises to large ones. Simply put, there was transition from a spot market for labor to one of implicit and explicit contractual relations. The purpose of this project is analyze the dimensions of the changing relationship between firms and workers and the implications of this changing relationship for the economy. This research is particularly timely and important given the continuing and major restructuring of the American economy and the consequences this holds for American workers. The underlying thesis to be tested is that a chaotic labor market, in which workers often participated in nonproductive mobility, was replaced by one that grated labor property rights in jobs and that more fully utilized the work force. Labor unions, unemployment insurance, and other protection for labor fostered the change, but it was also brought about by other forces. Various aspects of this evolution will be analyzed more thoroughly such as unemployment and the wage structure across the 20th century. In addition, several related issues will also be studied including the returns to general and to specific human capital, the length of the employment relationship, the provision of benefits, the inter-industry wage differential, and the impact of immigration. Some of the necessary data sets exist, but in addition a large sample of firm-level records will be assembled to reveal details about worker-firm relationships during the 20th century.