Wages and Labor Markets Before the American Civil War

美国内战前的工资和劳动力市场

• 批准号: 9206766
• 负责人: Robert Margo
• 金额: $ 4.34万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-11-01 至 1995-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9206766&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Wages; Labor; Markets; Before; American

The purpose of this project is to complete the collection of a large body of archival data on wages in the United States from 1820 to 1860. The data will be used to construct annual time- series of nominal and real wages for different occupations and regions. These new wage series will improve upon earlier wage estimates, and will provide important new insights into many fundamental aspects of nineteenth century American economic development such as the changes over time in living standards; the spatial integration of labor markets within the United States and in an international context; the relationship between economic growth and inequality; the role of economic factors in the coming of the Civil War; and macroeconomic performances in an era of little or no government intervention in economic affairs. This research is important because it will generate a useful new data set along with a more complete analysis of the evolution of the US labor market in the early 19th century.

这个项目的目的是完成一个 大量关于美国工资的档案数据， 1820年到1860年。 这些数据将用于构建年时间- 不同职业的名义和真实的工资系列， 地区 这些新的工资序列将比以前的工资有所改善 估计，并将提供重要的新见解，许多 世纪美国经济的基本方面 发展，如生活水平随时间的变化; 美国国内劳动力市场的空间整合 在国际范围内， 经济增长和不平等;经济因素在 内战的到来;以及 一个政府很少或根本不干预经济事务的时代。 这项研究很重要，因为它将产生一个有用的新的 数据集沿着，更完整地分析了 世纪初的美国劳动力市场。